Gonzalo herman
10/19/2020 15:00
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/19/2020 3:14 PM
This Monday the seventh grades of the City's elementary schools started.
It is the second stage of the opening of schools in the Capital.
Last week the fifth year boys had started.
The Buenos Aires government hopes to continue opening more schools in the remainder of the month.
They estimate that by next Friday there will be about 190 institutions with classes.
Clarín made a tour of different establishments, public and private, and
spoke with parents and students
about returning to classes after seven months of quarantine.
School District 8 Ayohuma Girls located in Parque Chacabuco.
In the City there are more than 425 state-run schools.
There are 17,700 seventh grade students.
Photo: Andres D'Elia
Clara waits for her daughter to leave the last shift of the morning at Los Robles school, in Monserrat.
Since March it hasn't.
The last time he waited for her on the sidewalk it was still summer and the coronavirus was just a threat that was just landing in Ezeiza.
Seven months later, wearing a chinstrap and keeping her distance from others,
Clara is happy that once again she can see her twelve-year-old girl leaving school with her classmates.
"It seems spectacular to me. It seems barbaric that classes start again. Because it has been a long time and it was necessary to go back to school. It is good to come to school. It reminds me of the old normality.
I hope we can continue like this
and each time it is greater to the opening. ", says Clara.
Next to her is Ramiro, who is waiting for his daughter and her companions to take each of them home.
He confesses that he had become unaccustomed to going through school.
"Eight months of isolation is a lifetime," he
says.
He says that he is happy with the return of the children to the classrooms but complains that, in his opinion, it took a long time to make
the decision to open the schools.
First day after seven months at Los Robles school.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
"They had to open a little earlier. We are in the middle of October and there is very little left until the end of the year. I think they arrived a little late and that they are also forgetting the initial course.
I have two boys in room five, it
is an important cycle because they will start primary school next year. I think they are totally isolated and that is wrong. The schools have already presented protocols to open, I don't know what they are waiting for, "says Ramiro.
Sofia and her mother leave school, both happy to live something similar to the old normality again.
"I missed this a lot.
Seeing my friends, being with them like before. It's weird at the same time", confesses Sofía.
She says that during the seven months of isolation it was very difficult for her to study and that there is nothing to overcome being in school to learn.
"At home it is very difficult to pay attention because there are a lot of other stimuli that distract me. On the other hand, everything is much easier here, because the teacher is there with you to help you and see what they are doing," he adds.
Alejandro De Oto Gilotaux, director of Los Robles, told Clarín that 90 percent of the students attended and that they hope to add more days to the educational day in the coming weeks.
"There are two shifts, one from new to ten thirty and another from eleven to twelve thirty. They are going to start working two days a week, an hour and a half, to test this form of bonding."
Buenos Aires Education sources said that the idea is to open several schools per week.
"In total we opened 12 schools the first week (most technical). And we want a total of 190 schools the second week (technical, middle and primary). Today we open 20 state-run primary and 20 secondary schools. And we authorize the opening of 202 privately managed primary schools and 152 secondary schools, some are already receiving students and others will do so in the coming days. "
Return to face-to-face classes for 7th grade students at Elementary School No. 7 of School District 8 Ayohuma Girls located in Parque Chacabuco.
Photo: Andres D'Elia
In the City there are more than 425 state-run schools.
There are 17,700 seventh grade students.
In addition, there are 170 secondary schools, also state-run, with 12,500 fifth and sixth grade students.
Privately run, there are 464 schools, with 20,800 students, and secondary, 5th and 6th years, 349 schools with 17,500 students.
"The idea is to gradually and gradually return. The students have to be divided into groups of ten people, that is, nine students and a teacher, whom we call bubbles, and each of these groups does not have to have contact with the others. In this way we are trying to resume education, "they commented from Buenos Aires Education.
As for the initial cycle, they said that it is not yet planned when they will return.
"We hope it will be soon."
For her part, Soledad Acuña, Minister of Education of the City, asserted that the opening of the technical schools had 100 percent attendance.
"We live it with great joy because they are boys who are finishing school and are preparing to enter the world of work."
GS
