01/09/2021 15:32
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/09/2021 3:32 PM
The Minister of Education of the City,
Soledad Acuña
, assured that "there is not enough reason for students to spend another year out of school" and thus distanced himself from the national government officials who warned that the return to the classroom depends on that measures be taken to avoid a re-outbreak of coronavirus.
"If we continue with distancing, with the mandatory use of a mask and with the necessary precautions, there is not enough reason for students to spend another year out of school," Acuña remarked before
Clarín's
query
.
The head of the City's educational portfolio spoke about the recent statements made by the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, and supported by the Minister of Education of the Nation, Nicolás Trotta.
"If we want the boys and girls to return to the classrooms in March, we have to be extremely careful today," Cafiero said shortly before the decree was published with which the Casa Rosada asked the governors to limit the movement of people overnight.
Trotta supported the statement by Cafiero: "If we want to take care of the school in terms of the intentionality of its presence we have to maximize all the care in other aspects of life and it is part of the decision that our government has adopted and the message that we want to multiply in each of the jurisdictions ".
In this regard, Acuña considered that "the discussion is not whether or not they should go to schools" and remarked: "I think that after all this year and all that we have learned, the discussion that we must raise is how we are going to do so that boys and girls have a school day again. "
"Families need certainty more than ever. And from the City we have been insisting for more than 9 months that boys and girls have to be in school, that nothing replaces the presence. And we work so that on February 17 the classrooms are full ", completed the Buenos Aires minister.
And she was confident that "we are all going to be up to the challenge" to avoid setting up a scenario that frustrates the reopening of schools.
"Let us bear in mind that students are the ones who should be at the center of our decisions. We have always emphasized the importance of depoliticizing the beginning of classes and making it a goal outside of party discussions. And this year it is not the exception, "he said.