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Back to face-to-face classes at the GBA: thermal shirt, timetable tetris and anxiety about the reunion

2021-06-19T15:59:23.955Z


After two months, the students resumed their presence. The sensations in a public school in Avellaneda and a private one in Olivos.


Rocio Magnani

Michelle Sabaj

06/16/2021 11:36 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 06/16/2021 11:37 AM

The face-to-face classes returned this Wednesday at the door of

private schools and public schools

in Greater Buenos Aires.

The entrance is staggered by degrees and lasts about an hour to avoid crowds.

The postcards are repeated from Avellaneda to Vicente López.

One teacher takes the list, another takes the temperature and thus, without “Aurora” or training in the yard, the class day begins.

Yes indeed.

With 6 degrees,

nobody is missing the thermal shirt

, the

queen

of garments in this return to the presence in the province of Buenos Aires after two months.

Mariel (16), fifth year, has to enter at 8 and lines up twenty minutes earlier in front of the Normal 1 High School in Avellaneda, the Prospero Alemandri Normal Superior School (ENSPA).

"I already wanted to return, because

I have not seen my colleagues for two years

," he tells this newspaper with the sworn statement that he does not have symptoms compatible with Covid-19 on his hand.

In March, only his 8-year-old brother attended his school, another institution in the party.

"

When my parents work, I take care of it.

But with the bubbles, we had very different schedules and we did not coincide. So, I asked to change the group, but before they gave it to me we returned to virtuality," he explains and adds that "the same thing" happened to her cousin.

The entrance of students to the ENSPA of Avellaneda, this Wednesday morning.

Photo: Luciano Thieberger

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A few meters away, Malena, 15 years old and half blue hair, says that

what she missed the most was not being able to get together with friends

. You will not see all of them, because the groups are divided into bubbles of 15 students, in shifts of 2 hours. He is not too concerned about the temperature, now that winter is approaching and the classrooms have to maintain cross circulation: "I put on the thermal shirt and I think that with that the cold is over."

"I don't know what I would do if my older children couldn't travel alone," admits Vanesa, on the side of the primary school.

She waits for Violeta, her youngest daughter, 8 years old, to enter.

She has two other twins, 14, who attend high school and have different entry and exit times.

"Fortunately, they already handle themselves, because it is

crazy to have to bring several at different times,

" he says.

He is very satisfied with the work of the school during the virtuality stage.

“The professors and teachers worked a lot and this year it was clear that they were already more prepared.

They even had blackboards in the houses.

It seems to me that

it is not necessary to demonize virtuality

”, he assures.

The course modality is now

mixed

.

They have 3.15 hours of class per day and go every other week in groups of up to 20. Teachers load the day's activities early in a virtual classroom for the group that is not going to attend in person.

"The only thing that no longer occurs is the Zoom, because the teachers are here teaching classes,"

the director, Nancy Montero

, explains to

Clarín

.

“When we set up the subgroups we take into account the family group so that everyone attends the same week, if there is more than one boy.

We cannot solve the schedule, because the entrance must be staggered every fifteen minutes to avoid families accumulating at the entrance ”, he explains.

Fabricio (6) is one of the last to enter.

He wears a northern wool hat, gloves and a jacket.

Downstairs, he also wears a thermal shirt, his father Mario Avincetto (38) will say, that this morning he did not need to also bring his other two children, because the grandmother volunteered.

“Tomorrow I don't know what I'm going to do.

I guess I'm going to stay here ”, he assures and details that, as he only works on weekends and lives nearby, he will have no problem taking them.

The oldest, who attends fifth grade, enters at 7.30;

the one who goes to third grade at 8 and the first grade, Fabricio, at 8.30.

They depart between 10.45 and 12.15.

A whole tetris of schedules. 

The little girl in the fuchsia camper, a few meters away, you can't see her face between the mask, the hat and the hood on top.

Montero, the director, explains that from the Province they have already been assigned

four carbon dioxide meters

, which will allow them to measure the concentration of the air, to be able to aerate the classroom no more than necessary to prevent cold temperatures.

But the heating will have to wait a few more days: "As the stoves have been unused for a year and a half, we ask for a review before turning them on to avoid any problems."

Harry Potter bubbles

Private schools have more resources, in general, to combat low temperatures.

At the ORT Argentina school, in the City of Buenos Aires, they began to deliver fleece blankets so that the boys do not get cold while they are studying.

In Olivos, meanwhile, the advice was to dress "in layers" at the Northlands de Olivos, an exclusive private school attended, among other students, by the current queen of the Netherlands, Máxima Zorreguieta.

"Inside the classroom, the windows are wide open, so we ask parents to send the boys

dressed in layers and warm

, because the colder months are coming," informed Teresa De Stefano, director of community relations of the institution.

Back to face-to-face classes at the Northlands school in Olivos.

In his case, the groups attend every day: “

The bubbles have a Harry Potter system

, with four

houses

or teams.

And then we have two of those teams that come in the morning and the other in the afternoon, and they are invested week by week ”.

Among other measures, such as staggering recesses or enabling all admissions to the institution to prevent crowds,

voluntary coronavirus testing rounds are carried out

for teachers and high school students, who are the ones that “medically and due to social habits are more plausible to contract and transmit Covid ”, he detailed.

Organized admission, in the return to face-to-face classes at Northlands.

At the school entrance, the entrance is organized so that

parents do not need to get out of the car

. The parents line up with the cars, open the window, greet the teachers, deliver the affidavits, and the boys get out to line up distantly. In a yellow vest, two people organize the traffic, meanwhile.

Those who are walking, on the other hand, leave them at the door and continue quickly in order to avoid the crowds.

“Going back to school occurs at a difficult time, but it

is essential that children are in school

.

It has been proven that it is not a place of contagion, so it is important both for the children and for the families, so that the parents can go out to work and also for a health issue, because the children were locked up ”, said a woman taking his son to primary school.

"He should have come back sooner," added another mother.

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Source: clarin

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