Ricardo Braginski
08/23/2021 8:25 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/23/2021 8:39 PM
Three weeks before the elections, the national government is making progress in
reducing the distance between boys and girls in the classroom
.
Until now, the protocol approved in July of last year governs, which establishes that students have to have
a minimum distance of 1.5 meters between them
, which forces them to divide the courses into bubbles and does not allow all the boys to be together inside of the classrooms, in a scheme like that of the pre-pandemic.
All this happens in 22 jurisdictions,
except in Capital and Mendoza
, where governments changed their own local protocols,
eliminated the distancing
in classrooms and now allow all students to be together in schools, from Monday to Friday.
In fact, this Monday the City of Buenos Aires
incorporated kindergarten children into this scheme
.
There were already those of primary and secondary.
Minister Trotta this Monday, with the Health specialists of the Advisory Council for the Return to Face-to-Face Classes.
But now it is the national government that seeks to change the distance of the boys, with the aim of accelerating the presence.
As confirmed by the Minister of Education Nicolás Trotta to
Clarín,
the idea is to
shorten the distance between students
provided for in the protocol.
It is analyzed to take it
to 0.90 meter
, similar to what is established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the health agency of the United States.
The minister met this Monday with the Health specialists of the Advisory Council for the Return to Presence Classes - a body created within the scope of his portfolio - to
"analyze the evidence"
that allows progress in making school distances more flexible.
The meeting will continue on Tuesday and it seeks to
enable the changes this week
in a meeting of the Federal Council of Education As Trotta explained to
Clarín,
the idea is to establish
an optimal distance
for the children to be inside the classroom (which will be 1.5 meters ), plus
another admissible distance
, which will be allowed in all those schools that cannot guarantee the optimal distance.
The big news here is this "allowable distance".
The final number is not yet there, but what was established in the United States is being looked at closely.
The Ministry of Education explained that
the rest of the
protocol's
care measures will be maintained
, such as the strict use of masks within schools and cross ventilation.
And that this decision is reached from a
combination of indicators
that allow it, such as the advance of vaccination throughout the country, the decrease in cases and intensive care beds used and the soon arrival of spring, with better weather conditions.
In any case, they say, it could be reversed if epidemiological conditions worsen.
For example, if there are more infections from the
announced circulation of the Delta variant
of the virus.