06/21/2021 6:52 PM
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Updated 06/21/2021 6:52 PM
Uruguay's primary education
returned to 100% of face-to-face classes this Monday
after the return to classrooms of fourth, fifth and sixth grade students (9-12 years old) from the departments (provinces) of Montevideo and Canelones (south).
It is about 75,000 children who, until this day,
continued to have virtual classes and who now returned to schools, as confirmed to the press by the president of the Central Directive Council of the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP), Robert Silva.
The next step that the Government of Luis Lacalle Pou (center-right) hopes to accomplish is the return
of face-to-face classes in Secondary,
which, it is hoped, could be on July 12, upon return from winter holidays.
"It is a very good day for education and for the country. 75,000 children, of which 56,000 correspond to public education, return to Canelones and Montevideo in fourth, fifth and sixth,
completing the cycle of returning to the presence in initial
and primary school, in a pandemic situation that worries and occupies us all but with the responsibility that is being acted on by families, teachers and officials, "he stressed.
Also, Silva considered that
the balance "is very positive"
and that this speaks of "the need to return to the presence" not only because of learning but also because of "the affective, the emotional, the bonding".
Presence
"The children were requiring that affection that only presence gives it. We have advanced a lot to virtuality, presence from now on is
going to be highly mediated by technology
and virtuality," he said.
Meanwhile, the general director of Initial and Primary Education, Graciela Fabeyr, told the press that each return
"generates a lot of expectation"
and pointed out that they are "very committed" looking for alternatives to improve.
"Although they have worked at a distance,
the presence offers conditions that are unique for learning
and that the children themselves rescue," he considered.
On March 23, the Uruguayan Executive announced several measures to stop the increase in cases of covid-19,
including the suspension of presence at all levels of education.
The measure to suspend face-to-face classes was originally going to be
until April 5
, but it was postponed due to the increase in positive cases of covid-19 and deaths derived from this disease.
Since the pandemic began in the country, Uruguay has accumulated 354,865 positive cases (26,100 active) and 5,271 deaths.
Source: EFE
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