According to the Ministry of Education, in the capital of the Republic, the educational units are in good condition although some repairs must be made.
Some 30,000 students there would be in Quito in technical and rural baccalaureate, according to the Ministry of Education.
According to the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE), at the request of that State portfolio, students from the technical and rural baccalaureate are the ones that must first be incorporated into face-to-face activities, from this Monday, November 22.
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Enrique Pérez García, Undersecretary of Education of the Quito Metropolitan District of the Ministry of Education, stated that it is mandatory that educational institutions schools open, but it is not mandatory yet for students to attend.
Pérez indicated that some establishments are already in classes, not with 100% return, but they are receiving students, although he did not specify a percentage.
With regard to infrastructure, for Pérez, in Quito the educational units are in good condition.
“From what I have gone through, that is, it is not true that you cannot return to classes, but there are spaces where, indeed, some repairs need to be done medium or small, and it will take time … ”, he indicated.
Remembered that are not mandatory neither the uniforms nor the texts when they returned to the classrooms, and invited parents to present their complaints.
Uniform is not a requirement for mandatory return to face-to-face classes from November 22
He maintained that it has worked in mingas for education throughout the country with crews, with painting, with cleaning and disinfection.
In Quito, he stated, they have invested $ 386.000 in infrastructure improvement.
Regarding the progress in vaccination against the coronavirus, he indicated that, 5 to 12 years45% have received first doses; from 12 to 18 years, 81% have first doses and 72% second doses.
“If a child is not vaccinated, is at risk. Schools are safe (…). What is the problem? The problem is that the child who is not vaccinated to get to school takes a bus or goes to the park, or goes to the movies or the market, or goes to the shopping center or wherever he wants, and there he can get infected, “said Pérez.
He noted that, at the national level, they are attending more than 800,000 children and young people and there has been a very low contagion rate, which has been outside the schools.
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