02/17/2021 7:35 AM
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Updated 02/17/2021 8:05 AM
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28s ago
08:05
Some points of the return protocol
-The entrance to the schools will be staggered every 10 minutes.
-The bubbles are the grade, room, course or year.
-The social distance has to be at least 1.5 meters and for that a redistribution of the furniture was made.
-When entering, the temperature of all the boys is taken, and they must clean their hands with alcohol gel.
-The mask is mandatory from room five onwards and teachers are provided acetate masks.
-Air renewal is key and doors and windows will be kept open.
-There will be breaks but without contact between the different bubbles.
They can be staggered or in different spaces.
-The major events, including the start of classes, are suspended for the moment.
14m ago
07:51
Ricardo Braginski
A million boys could drop out of school
The face-to-face classes begin, but with a serious concern about the impact generated by a full year without attendance.
From the same national government they estimate that, due to the interruption of face-to-face classes, 10% of the students enrolled in March 2020 -at some level of compulsory education- had little or no exchange with their school, and now they are at risk to drop out.
They number more than a million students throughout the country.
The problem of desertion (many specialists prefer to call it
"school shelling"
to take away the language of war) is not new and has been worrying for years in Argentina.
It is known that about 9% of high school students, for example, had already dropped out of school each year before the existence of a new coronavirus was known in Wuhan.
There were something like
400,000 teenagers who left the classrooms every year.
Or a thousand a day.
Now the numbers will be even higher.
The full report here.
21m ago
07:44
A guild does not start: it is unemployed
The Teaching Association of the City of Buenos Aires (Ademys) does not begin face-to-face classes.
The union announced several days ago a 72-hour strike because they say that the epidemiological conditions to return to classes are not in place.
"
We are going to sustain the strike and take a tour of the calamitous schools in the city,
" said Amada Martín, union secretary.
"On Friday we will have an assembly and we are going to analyze how we continue. There is a possibility that we will continue the strike next week," he said.
📢 Without epidemiological, infrastructure or salary conditions, classes DO NOT
START
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⛔ 17, 18 and 19 UNEMPLOYMENT
✔ Wed 17: 8.30hs Press Conf in Govt Headquarters.
✔ Thu 6:17 pm Educational caravan of Congress to the National Min Educ 🚲🚗🚙
✔ Fri 7:30 pm Assembly🙋🏾♀️✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/eakK7I1SAO
- Ademys (@AdemysPrensa) February 14, 2021
24m ago
07:41
A striking fact in the middle of the return to classes
: due to the coronavirus, teachers cannot tie students' shoes and the demand with velcro shoots up.
It is part of the protocols that teachers use to maintain their distance.
The restriction mostly affects kindergarten and first grade boys.
Back to school.
Parents children school pandemic.
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27m ago
07:38
Felipe Miguel, Chief of Staff of the City of Buenos Aires:
"For me today is the most important day of the year and that is why we are all very happy: we open the schools and the boys, after so many months, return to face-to-face classes. ... this has an impact on thousands of children, families and teachers ".
"I am convinced that here there are no winners or losers: with the return to face-to-face classes, we all win; and this is the result of months of work with the entire educational system," said the Buenos Aires official.
30m ago
07:35
Nicolás Trotta, Minister of Education:
"The school will be different from the prepandemic: it is a school that must be attentive to any change that implies reformulating some of the decisions, because we have to achieve a balance between the right to education and the care of health".
"The structure of the protocols has to do with what was approved in July of last year; the challenge is their compliance and supervision in each school but also in each classroom, with a very diverse infrastructure in terms of school capacity," the minister told
radio El Uncover.
After 11 months with the schools closed and in the midst of criticism of his management, Trotta said that "the experience has changed throughout the year: the evidence will show us if we should introduce any changes in the protocols."
"There is no single rule, but the recommendation is to reduce the level of contact with teachers with as few students as possible."
35m ago
07:30
Back to school: the ten keys to going back to the classroom
Photo Germán García Adrasti
Everything there is to know, from moving and the prevention protocol in schools to the organization of the school year and how the evaluations will be.