He minister of Education of the Nation, Nicolas Trotta, warned this Friday thate “epidemiological conditions are not given” for a back to classes in the city of Buenos Aires, although he praised the will of the Buenos Aires government to reach some 5,000 students who had no contact with their teachers from the beginning of social isolation.
Trotta’s position was known after the Buenos Aires head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, will announce its intention to return to classes in the coming weeks 5,100 public school students who had internet connectivity problems, a measure that generated the immediate rejection of the CTERA teachers union.
Although Trotta praised the Buenos Aires proposal of “carry out a socio-educational policy to reach the homes of the more than 5,000 boys and girls who have not had contact with their teachers“, he clarified that in these hours “The priority is the health care of the educational community.”
In addition, he requested “the presentation of the protocols” for the opening of “School computer cabinets that will improve pedagogical continuity”.
The announcement of the City generated the rejection of the Ctera, which considered that the AMBA region “It is far from being considered a safe zone for activities where large numbers of people congregate like schools. “
“We have one huge concern about the impact of the pandemic in the teaching and learning processes of all girls, boys and adolescents as well as in their subjective dimension “Trotta said in a public statement.
“We work,” he continued, “in those regions where epidemiological conditions are given, to promote the return to the classroom, as have been the cases of certain regions in the provinces of San Juan and Formosa and it will be, next Tuesday, in the departments of Catamarca“.
The minister stressed that he celebrates “any initiative of educational jurisdictions that involves prioritize the presence of the State in guaranteeing the right to education for those students who have not had contact with their teachers “
“This is the objective of the Acompañar program in which progress is being made in conjunction with the 24 educational jurisdictions”, he specified.
He indicated that the Advisory Council for the Planning of the Presential Return to the classrooms, “has been developing an interdisciplinary and participatory task, which produces common criteria to be debated in the Federal Council of Education “.
The idea of the Buenos Aires government was advanced by Rodríguez Larreta during the conference led by President Alberto Fernández in the Quinta de Olivos and later the head of the Government gave more details on the subject in an interview with the press.
Rodríguez Larreta highlighted that we will go “to look for the boys at their houses and take them to schools with all the necessary protocol, in order to re-link them with their teachers. “
He also specified that “Next week we will be talking with the Ministry of Education of the Nation on this issue.”
In this framework, the Buenos Aires educational portfolio explained that the first step in the implementation of this plan “it will be open primary and secondary schools so that all guys who have had a connectivity problem they can access a computer and the Internet at home. “
He indicated that the arrival of these 5,100 students “it will be done with previous shift“, in a relationship “that favors distancing within buildings and classrooms, and the implementation of protocols”while students will be supervised “by the conductions of the schools”.
In addition, private management schools will be invited to join and They can open spaces for the use of computers and internet connection.
Rodríguez Larreta explained that “90 percent of the students of the public and private system have been in connection with the schools. Some 500 thousand boys have maintained that link. But, despite the effort, we have identified about 5,100 students of the public system who, due to different situations, they have not been able to follow that contact. “
“The guys who they had no contact it was because of his family situation, because of their socioeconomic situation, so that we will go to look for them one by one at their houses, it is important to regain the link with them “, remarked.
For the Ctera guild, the ad is “foolish” and detailed that on June 4 a Joint Agreement “where the necessary health and hygiene conditions were stipulated so that face-to-face classes could begin in the provinces.”
“It is irresponsible to start classes in one of the districts with the most infections and deaths in the country” said the union and considered that this measure “It will put the lives of teachers, students and school personnel at risk, being a source of contagion for Buenos Aires families.”
The deputy head of government, Diego Santilli, in turn, highlighted in television statements that students will go to the school to connect to a computer with good internet access “without the presence of teachers in schools “.
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