Definitely, students from the communes of La Serena and Coquimbo will not return to face-to-face classes this year and will finish their school year with online classes, as they have done so far.
In the case of La Serena, as in Coquimbo, the balance was inclined not to return to classes this year due to the pandemic and not to put students at risk, especially when the contagion curve in the area is one of the highest in the country.
The mayor of La Serena, Roberto Jacob, confirms the above, stating that “we are going to continue with online classes as long as there are no adequate sanitary conditions, it is not possible to return to classes.”
In addition, he says that the virtual classes, as they have been done so far, everything possible has been done to make them as complete. “We have tried to put the internet in all the places where there is no network, everything to make the conditions easier for the students.”
He says that they have done relatively well, which is the important thing and in the face of the danger of going back to school, he believes that it is the best. “Today, risking our children, especially when the Fourth Region, La Serena and Coquimbo, within the country we are in second place (of infections), we will not do it. It is no less when we talk about Covid here in the region. Therefore, we cannot risk our children in any way that they go to face-to-face classes ”, affirmed the Serene mayor.
Coquimbo also suspends
In the commune of Coquimbo they also determined that they will not return to face-to-face classes, this happened in a wide online meeting where representatives of the Teachers’ College participated; the Puerto Cordillera Local Education Service; representatives of parent and guardian centers; the mayor Marcelo Pereira and guests such as the epidemiologist, Muriel Ramírez and the national president of the College of Teachers, Mario Aguilar.
On this, the communal president of the teachers’ union, Tomás Alvarado, said that after listening to the different positions “it was decided not to continue with face-to-face classes until next year, due to the sanitary conditions, risk and because the care of the establishments educational is not the most optimal at this time. What most concerned us is the situation of the pandemic, how it is increasing in a galloping way in Coquimbo ”, said the leader.
Likewise, he delivered a regrettable figure, indicating that in Chile there are 54 students who have died as a result of the Coronavirus, highlighting that for them the fundamental thing was the student’s life and “cannot be exposed to a situation of sending them to classes, since it can be a vector to reach the house and infect the elderly ”.
For his part, the mayor of Coquimbo, Marcelo Pereira, was critical of the national authorities of the Ministry of Education, pointing out that the minister and the undersecretary “are wrong and it is a very bad decision to want to force a return that is not safe for our students and I allow myself to speak more than as mayor as doctor, as long as the students are Coquimbanos, we will always be at the foot of the canyon to take care of and defend them ”.
He agreed that the rise in infections in the area is high, “with a quarantine that so far has been mismanaged” and with a community that did not understand the danger of the situation, so it was not wise to return to face-to-face classes . “I think it is not the time for a safe return,” said the mayor of Buenos Aires.
Diario El Día tried to contact the directors of the Puerto Cordillera Local Education Service, but they declined to refer to the matter.
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