03/21/2021 11:59 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/21/2021 12:15 PM
Presence in the City's schools is a priority.
It is often said by the head of Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and now the Minister of Education, Soledad Acuña, repeated it, who took another step and assured that they are evaluating
introducing changes in the protocols
to add more hours and students in schools.
"We would like to continue working on the path of eliminating distancing so that all boys enter the classrooms. Many studies have shown that with the use of the chinstrap, ventilation and hygiene,
distancing is not so necessary,
" said the official in dialogue with
Todo Noticias
.
"We are going to make decisions based on evidence, data," he added.
Thus, the minister hinted at the possibility of adjusting the current protocols, given the low rate of infections during the last month in the classrooms.
"In this process we are trying to make some measures more flexible, such as eliminating the tiered income that takes time."
In the same way,
Acuña added that they are evaluating the opening of bars and kiosks in educational institutions
.
"We are working on measures that allow children to buy in school kiosks and bars, that a capacity system can be generated and that children can eat or cook hot food and eat it in ventilated spaces," he stressed.
Soledad Acuña, Buenos Aires Minister of Education.
Although specialists speak of the possibility of a second wave or regrowth, Acuña insisted: "The first slogan is, as the head of Government said, that in case activities have to be restricted, the school is the last thing to close." .
"We learned that seven months without face-to-face school generates enormous damage and it will take a long time to reverse the consequences. In a single year, statistics that we had been improving in the last 12, in terms of repetition and dropout, were destroyed," he concluded.
In recent days, the Ministry of Education of the City identified that there are 9,076 secondary students who took between eight and eleven subjects, out of a total of almost 99,000 that the system had in 2019 (latest official figures).
Although these adolescents “passed the year”, they did so under the “accompanied promotion” regime established as an exception in the framework of the pandemic.
Now, to avoid that they end up repeating at the end of the year -because of not being able to accredit the knowledge of 2020 plus those of 2021- or that before they abandon their studies, the Buenos Aires authorities put together a proposal so that they also have to go to school on Saturdays, with the aim that they can recover the content they lost and try to catch up.
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