09/18/2020 - 14:42
Clarín.com
Society
"Throughout the country there are a huge number of children and adolescents who have become disconnected and do not have the possibility of continuing their learning, for various reasons. So this problem
must be faced and recognized.
Agreements must be made It seems to us that starting a path like the one the City of Buenos Aires is doing is to analyze and measure it day by day, "
Sara García, general secretary of the Association of Teaching Teaching
, tells
Clarín.
Technique (AMET).
Thus, he gave the "go-ahead" to classes in public spaces, the Buenos Aires initiative.
From the other side, the teaching union Union of Education Workers (UTE-Ctera)
insists with the rejection
of the return of face-to-face classes.
Whether in classrooms or in squares.
This is the "crack" of the Education union in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic,
between empty desks and screens that do not reach everyone.
The counterpoint is a limbo, despite the fact that, this Wednesday, the Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta, underestimated it.
"There is no bid with the City" for the return to classes, they are only "different views," he said.
But, at the same time, the minister assured that the Buenos Aires territory
"is the only jurisdiction with which he had" a discrepancy. "
Trotta pointed out that
there are already "6,500 computers ready to be delivered to the City, we await authorization
.
"
With that number of devices, they seek to validate the number of boys and girls that the government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta pointed out as those who could not continue classes virtually.
The City made an informal presentation to the Ministry of Education of the Nation so that 6,500 students have classes in public spaces such as parks or squares and another number -that would be about 24,000-
have face-to-face classes in the street and on the sidewalk
of both public schools as private.
She proposed that classes in public spaces start on September 28, so that students can re-establish the bond with their teachers.
The teaching unions rejected the proposal that same day.
"It is an antiquarantine attitude
, which shows ignorance of the educational processes," said the general secretary of (UTE-Ctera) in the Federal Capital, Angélica Graciano.
"The Minister (of Education of the City, Soledad Acuña) announced that they are going to give classes in the squares and equated giving classes outdoors to having a beer on the sidewalk of a bar, which speaks of ignorance of educational processes" , he continued.
Returning to the City, Manuel Becerra, a history teacher in Buenos Aires and a magister in history at UNSAM, said that "
going out to compare schools with bars already marks a position that does not have a pedagogical perspective
but rather to accommodate objects in the city. space".
On the other hand, Guillermina Tiramonti, a researcher in the Flacso Education Area, stated that "it is necessary to go out and look for them, connect them (to the students who did not achieve pedagogical continuity in a virtual way) and, since they do not have the possibility of connecting online
, take them to a center so that they can regain their schooling
to keep them connected to school ".
She considered that "if the necessary precautions are taken, there are no health risks" in the proposal of the Buenos Aires government.
There the head of the Center for Public Policies and Education specialist, Gustavo Iaies, agreed, who told Télam that the idea of a return to presence "addresses one of the main problems that quarantine has for schools, which is
the lack of socialization of the boys
and the cut off of the relation of the boys with the adults of the school ".
"We will see how much more or less we can work on school content, but it seems to me that it is a beautiful initiative to start the return," he said.
Meanwhile, in the Province, the general secretary of the Federation of Buenos Aires Educators (FEB), Mirta Petrocini, stressed that they have been working for months with the General Directorate of Culture and Education on
protocols for when the health situation allows the return to the classrooms
.
In the same vein, she said that she will return to face-to-face classes in the province of Buenos Aires only "when advised by the health authorities."
The union leader remarked: "The priority is health."
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