There are approximately 30 educational institutions nationwide that do not present minimum conditions to apply biosecurity measures, according to the Government.
Guilds of teachers questioned the decision of the national Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) to approve the return to face-to-face classes from next Monday, November 22 and made requests for that return.
For the Teachers Network, is an “act of irresponsibility or omission” of the national COE and the Minister of Education, María Brown Pérez, to arrange the return to face-to-face classes without first solving or at least alleviating the serious deficiencies of the education sector.
“Fundamentally it is about preserving students against the risk of contagion, but the problem is much greater after almost two years of abandonment of the educational centers. There are no basic protection supplies, there is a lack of teaching, service and guardian personnel, there is an excess of students per classroom, ”said Nelly Miño, sub-coordinator of the union.
He added that the conditions of the parents they are extremely difficult to expect them to meet the above needs.
Students who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus will be able to return to the presence
While the National Union of Educators (UNE) asked guarantee financial resources established by the Constitution, as well as that students have two doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
The UNE also requested the delivery of biosafety equipment for teachers and the provision of masks for students, in addition to the non-return of teachers or administrative and support personnel who are in a state of vulnerability.
Concern in parents of schools in Guayaquil with infrastructure problems in the face of an eventual mandatory return to presence
He also proposed to guarantee from the Government the basic services as free water, electricity and internet.
Budget of $ 650 million.
Regarding what I know will demand for the return to the classrooms is that the educational units are safe and that the infrastructure conditions do not endanger the physical integrity or the health of the students, said the Minister of Education, María Brown Pérez, in a radio interview.
The official maintained that there are approximately 30 educational institutions at the national level that do not present minimum conditions to apply biosecurity measures.
That State portfolio will identify alternate properties in which students will be reassigned while the infrastructure intervention takes place.
He added that there are other educational entities that can be partially used due to theft or the rains there was damage but other spaces are used. In those cases, he explained, that area is isolated.
The official stated that one of the requirements is that there are measures for the correct hand washingI know an alternative.
“A national sweep was made that quantified the intervention in a need for $ 650 million to leave them in perfect condition and these will be interventions that will delay during the administration, it could even be the entire next year and the next because they are interventions in more than 12,000 educational institutions nationwide”Brown said.
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