Absenteeism in Manabí and deterioration of schools in Esmeraldas was evidenced on the first day of mandatory return to face-to-face classes

This Monday in Manabí, some 16,795 students from 138 technical high school institutions in the 22 cantons of this province had to return to face-to-face classes, this within the first phase of the process of safe return to classrooms, but there was absenteeism in some institutions.

In Chone, for example, eight schools that have technical and rural baccalaureate degrees were supposed to start classes from today. At Raymundo Aveiga, students who are doing internships in mechanics and computer science were already attending since last week, but there are still few since their parents still do not want to send them, for fear that they will be infected with COVID-19, said a teacher .

Meanwhile, in the Magaly Masson Educational Unit of Valle Carrera, out of a thousand students, only 70 students attended, the same ones who according to the registry of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) have already been vaccinated with the two doses, said the rector, Ángela Zambrano .

In this establishment, students will remain in class for three hours and will not be able to go out to wander until it is time for them to go home, warned the rector.

Some 60,000 students from Guayaquil, Samborondón and Durán returned to face-to-face classes this Monday

The absenteeism was also reflected in the Augusto Solórzano Hoyos Educational Unit, where 126 students were supposed to attend, but only about 50 arrived, said the rector, Mirian Quijije Mendoza.

Esmeraldas

With uniforms of the Ministry of Education or home clothes, schoolchildren from the districts of the Ministry of Education of Atacames and Muisne were reunited with classmates who had already anticipated, since last October, the return to face-to-face classes.

These two cantons have 117 educational institutions, and only 14 of them were to receive 4,325 technical and rural high school students as of Monday, said Juan Carlos Bustamante, district director of this area in the south of the green province.

However, the youngest students have been in face-to-face classes since October due to the lack of internet and computers at home.

In Atacames, the inoculation of children between 5 and 11 years old and young people between 12 and 17 years old is promoted as part of the biosecurity measures.

With the educational community and institutions, self-management was carried out to rehabilitate the schools affected by the closure due to the pandemic, while others were merged into millennium units.

Deterioration was evident in the Leonidas Gruezo general basic school, on Luis Vargas Torres Island, in front of the city of Esmeraldas. There they intervened with a group of parents, students, teachers and employees of the Municipality of Esmeraldas, said Cristian Prado, coordinator of the Cabildo.

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The mayor Lucía Sosa and the district director of Education of Esmeraldas, Rommel Ruiz, reached an agreement to improve the educational units in poor condition.

In this cantonal jurisdiction there are 111 fiscal establishments, 17 fiscal commissions and 17 individuals. The Ministry of Education filed complaints for the theft of computers from the millennium unit of the Chinca parish, in Esmeraldas, and for damage to infrastructure in Tonsupa (Atacames).

In the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, 1,665 students returned from 28 schools in that province, according to the zonal coordination 4 of the Ministry of Education. (I)