Ricardo Braginski
09/15/2020 - 19:32
Clarín.com
Society
Shuffle and deal again.
Rejected by the Nation the proposal to open schools so that students who lost contact with the educational system can go there, the City Government now
redoubled the bet
and presented to the Minister of Education Nicolás Trotta
a new plan
that consists of those students
have face-to-face classes in open public spaces
, more specifically
in squares
.
The idea is that it be
one square per neighborhood
.
But in addition, the project is not aimed only at these children but also includes
a space for first-grade students
(in the same squares), another for those who are finishing high school - in the streets, with the school furniture, but without interrupting the traffic - and, finally, a space for
students of higher level and professional training
who need to take exams to receive and aspire to a job.
Classes in the squares.
How the City projects them in the Indo-American.
Soledad Acuña, Buenos Aires Minister of Education, took the proposal this afternoon to Minister Trotta, who must now analyze it.
The "Comprehensive plan to return to face-to-face", they say in the City, is "
a way of gradually returning to face-
to-
face classes,
focusing on the groups of students who need school the most."
They claim that it was designed together with the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health.
"We cannot resign ourselves to ending the year without the children returning to class. The school is not just a physical space, a classroom with desks.
It is a meeting place, a community reference and
fundamental
containment
in many aspects. Today there is many boys and their families who are far from that containment. We have to recover it, we still have time, "said
Soledad Acuña, the City's Minister of Education
, to
Clarín
.
Meeting this Tuesday between the Ministers of Education of Nicolás Trotta and Soledad Acuña and their teams.
After the meeting, the national Ministry of Education issued a statement stating that, at the meeting, Trotta informed Acuña that
the computers
it offered at the time
are already available
and that he
proposed a meeting with the Ministers of Health
Ginés González García and Fernán Quirós for next Monday in order to address the epidemiological situation.
How is the plan?
The Buenos Aires plan has three axes, which they called "School support and reading workshops in the public space", "School in the street" and "Evaluation spaces for the higher level".
The
“School support in the public space”
is intended for the 6,500 public school students who, according to the school directors, lost contact with the educational system.
Students from private schools may also participate.
Classes in the squares.
How the City projects them in the City Park.
The idea is that all of them have
a “personalized accompaniment”
to prevent them from losing school.
This support will be given
in the squares from 9 to 12
.
There will be
2 groups of 10 people per seat
(2 adults and 8 students), in shifts of
one hour and 15 minutes
.
Each group will go twice a week.
It will be in charge of socio-educational teachers, storytellers and promoters of reading.
Everyone must respect the distance, use chinstraps, alcohol gel and the teachers mask.
Meanwhile,
reading workshops will
be organized for first grade boys in public and private schools - who have the least degree of autonomy for learning - they
will be held in coordination with Culture and NGOs that work on the subject, they say from City.
Classes in the squares.
How the City projects them in the City Park.
The second axis of the Buenos Aires plan is
"The school in the street."
It is intended for 5th and 6th graders!
year of state and private schools, which are those who are closing their school year, those who are
looking forward to their graduate trip
.
They will have classes
twice a week between 10 and 12
with the furniture of the schools in the open air and without cutting streets.
The courses will be in charge of the conduction of each school and will be held in conjunction with other official agencies, such as Public Space, Transportation and Citizen's Liaison with Security.
You must also respect the distance of at least 1.5 meters between people, use chinstraps, alcohol gel and teachers with masks.
Classes in the squares.
How the City projects them in the Indo-American.
These spaces are optional for students, but reach
13,158 students from 170 public schools
and
17,344 from 394 private schools
.
Private schools that wish to participate in advance must make the request to the City government.
In the last axis of the plan are the
"Higher level evaluation spaces".
They are intended for eligible state and private education students who need to take final exams.
They will be made in outdoor spaces, but where it is not yet specified.
In the latter case, they are adults who are studying professions and trades in industries that are now enabled to operate, they say in the City.
Among the items are tourism, physical activity and sports, gastronomy, television production and production, motorcycle / bicycle repair and photography.
It reaches
1,020 students from 10 state institutions
and
762 who attend 17 private institutes
.
Classes in the squares.
How the City projects them in the Indo-American.
The proposal of the Buenos Aires Government is now in the hands of the Minister of Education Nicolás Trotta, who must consider it for approval.
From Ciudad they told
Clarín
that they have not yet put together the specific health protocol, but that they will do so as soon as they have the approval from the Nation.
A history of pulling
The pulls between the City and the Nation around face-to-face classes started a month ago when the Buenos Aires Ministry began to design a program so that some 6,500 public school students, who had lost all contact with the educational system, could go to “digital spaces ”In schools to reconnect with an educational environment and to be able to carry out their tasks on the computers in the computer cabinets.
On August 19, the City presented in the palace on Pizzurno Street
the protocol
so that this could be done with health care.
The original idea was for the process to
start on Monday, August 31
, along with a new stage of easing the quarantine.
The students targeted were those who, according to reports from the school principals themselves, had stopped communicating with teachers and professors.
There were 634 public schools, 464 elementary and 170 high schools.
The protocol established a maximum of 15 boys for each school, with an occupancy rate of one person every 15 square meters.
Also that it would be mandatory, to enter and stay in digital spaces, the use of a mask at all times.
The temperature of all people entering educational establishments would be taken.
The national Ministry of Education took a week to study the protocol and in the middle, Minister Nicolás Trotta held a Zoom with union leaders opposed to the city government who rejected all kinds of return to classes.
Finally, the Nation lowered its thumb to that first proposal from the City.