The Community of Madrid sees it “impossible” to establish classes with half the students | Madrid

The Minister of Education and Youth of the Community of Madrid, Enrqiue Ossorio, assured this Tuesday that “it is impossible to put into practice” the proposal of the Minister of Education, Isabel Celáa, so that next year the classes will have half of students and classroom teaching is combined with telematics. “It is an absolutely poorly thought-out proposal,” said the counselor. “For Infant and Primary students it is absolutely crazy, because those students need face-to-face contact with their teachers”, although he considers that in higher courses, in ESO and Bachillerato, distance learning is proving effective.

The regional adviser has indicated that his team is studying how to carry out face-to-face education during the transition phases of the covid-19 crisis. “We have to think about hygiene measures, distance measures, measures that a certain number of students do not coincide in the courtyards, the entrances, the exits, these are the measures that must be adopted and not that measure that the minister has proposed that does not it is well thought out, ”Ossorio insisted. “We have not had any communication, we have found out exclusively through the media,” he said.

It is not the first time that Madrid disagrees with the central government’s measures on education. At the end of April, the Ministry of Education of the region distanced itself from the consensus between the Ministry and the Autonomous Communities, which made the criteria for passing the course more flexible. For Madrid centers, the Ministry recommended taking into account the personal situation of each student derived from the covid-19 crisis, but established that those teaching teams that decide to be strict may adhere to current regulations (Lomce).

The proposal of the Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Isabel Celaá, announced this Monday, consists of a plan for the next academic year 2020-2021 with a maximum of 15 students per classroom. “If there is no remedy [una vacuna], the centers will have to be at half their capacity. This forces that a part of students are working in person and another part, telematically, “said the minister.

This measure that Celaá has explained for after the summer is already included in the Government’s de-escalation plan for the unprecedented “back to school” at the end of this course for students of certain courses. It is also established that in phase 2 of de-escalation, scheduled for the end of May, students in the second year of Bachillerato and the fourth year of Secondary can return to the institutes to receive refresher classes with a maximum of 15 students.

“Until we have a remedy or a vaccine the only tool to fight the virus is confinement. We cannot put everything advanced at risk, ”says Celaá in the interview, which also states that the next course will start with a review of the contents corresponding to this third quarter that millions of students have followed remotely from their homes due to confinement.

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