Irene Hartmann
10/09/2020 1:29 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/09/2020 1:29 PM
"What are we going to do?
We depend on what the ministries enable.
Private
schools
cannot make autonomous decisions.
Each school will present a protocol
against the coronavirus, depending on the space you have.
It will be necessary to establish precise shifts and days for small groups, but it is not the same if they only enable classes in outdoor patios: the SUM [Multiple Use Rooms] should also be used ”.
Perpetuo Lentijo, at the head of the Association of Argentine Private Educational Entities (Adeepra), was satisfied with the determination to return to classes, that is, the attempt that will begin on Tuesday so that, in person, students who lost contact with their teachers and those who are in the “graduation” phase, they can “reconnect” with the school.
In a phoneme game,
change Zoom to SUM
.
"The return will be gradual and, I would say, symbolic," Lentijo said twice in the talk, perhaps referring to a couple of opposing phenomena: "Symbolic" in the sense of the low number of students who will actually return to the classroom (" because a massive return would imply an
unsustainable social mobility
of teachers and families, which would again increase COVID infections ”);
and “symbolic” due to the enormous relevance of the measure, thinking about the 2021 school year: “It seems to me an important advance, especially considering that it
is a very useful experience to set guidelines in March
.
When we resume, if we do not have the sanitary problem solved, if the vaccine is not present, we have to start ".
Lentijo distinguished the many, according to the jurisdiction in question: “Regarding the city of Buenos Aires, I still have no definitions.
Details of how each establishment will proceed should arrive today (by Friday).
We know that each school must present a protocol, which must be approved.
We know the evaluation regime, some protocols, but the substance of the resolution that the Federal Council of Education adopted on Thursday is unknown to us ”.
As reported by Lentijo, they
expect a communication via e-mail
from the General Directorate of Private Management Education: “Yes, we are going to have to work over the weekend and on holidays.
But we teachers and managers are used to it.
This year we work 24x7.
Let no one say that it is a lost year! ", He emphasized.
A teacher from San Luis takes the temperature of an elementary school student.
New reality
Lentijo ventured that "the return, especially of the last years (the sixth and seventh grades, and the fifth and sixth years, depending on whether it is CABA or Province) should be
alternated
."
For example, he detailed: “A school with three sixth grades or two or three sixth years will not be able to contain all that population in school on the same day.
They probably have to alternate in some way, due to a space issue. "
"On the other hand, there is a lot of talk about open spaces, but that would be a limitation.
SUM-type spaces are key
, because the traditional classroom is very small. Anyway, a 40-square-meter SUM is not the same as one of 120 square meters. Each case will have to be seen, "he added.
As is known, conditions within the province of Buenos Aires are dissimilar: “The document that was approved by the Federal Council does not really determine a return to classes, but rather urges the provinces to determine the return based on a table of epidemiological indicators, according to the degree of viral circulation of covid.
I believe that in Buenos Aires the authorization will be done by district ”, indicated Lentijo.
In fact, as
Clarín
reported
, it will be like that.
While the districts in phase 3 (which account for 45% of the population of the Province) would continue with courses online as before, the “new modality” that the Buenos Aires educational authorities diagrammed would affect the municipalities in phase 4.
"In the rest of the AMBA, I honestly see it difficult for there to be an immediate return, although it is likely that before the end of the year there will be an instance of a symbolic return," the Adeepra spokesperson estimated.
Regarding the
lack of pedagogical continuity
, Lentijo reported “fresh figures from Thursday”: “In the province of Buenos Aires, taking private secondary level establishments, there are
40,000
boys with low ties to the system
.
It can be estimated that in public management there are many more.
As for the Buenos Aires primaries, the disconnection affects
38,000
boys ”.
These figures "are around
6% of the enrollment in Buenos Aires,
" he explained, and then added: "From CABA I do not have the data, but without a doubt the disconnection in private companies is less.
The data from Buenos Aires surprised us ”.
It makes sense, especially taking into account the dropping out of 40% of high school seniors in vulnerable neighborhoods.
Back to school in a public primary school in the province of San Luis, despite the pandemic.
Now, with almost
90% of the school year covered
, could things have been handled differently?
In line with what the Minister of Education himself, Nicolás Trotta, admitted this Friday, Lentijo was emphatic: “I understand that
something could have been done earlier
.
With the resolution that the Federal Council of Education adopted in May, the decisions for now could have been made.
The fear of the pandemic prevailed too much.
The sanitary criterion prevailed
, which was paralyzing, and the pedagogical very little ”.
Anyway, he emphasized, “the private school worked, although without the usual walls.
Yes there is something that could not be saved, which is the
socializing function
of the school, which requires the instance of coexistence.
We have to get the idea that
in March the schools have to open yes or yes
”.
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