The necessary resources to guarantee a safer return to the classrooms

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We risk a new confinement and the possibility of losing another school year. Can we afford to miss another school year? Analysis of the disasters caused by the pandemic often forgets the costs that, in the form of knowledge deficits and negative consequences in learning processes and habits, affected millions of students last year, especially students belonging to the sectors and families with fewer resources who did not have the necessary conditions, supports or technical devices at home to take advantage of or simply follow the instructions and explanations of their teachers and carry out the exercises and tasks proposed, so they ended up disengaging from school activities. Last year was a year lost or wasted for millions of boys, girls and young students.

It was inevitable? Possibly. You are never prepared for the very improbable or the impossible. But what is inconceivable is that the Community of Madrid has done nothing in recent months to remedy it and seems willing to waste a new course. The Madrid educational authorities are trying to sell public opinion tranquility and the appearance of a safe return to the classrooms that are in flagrant contradiction AOL Email List with the disorder they promote, the delay and improvisation with which they act and the scarce resources available. Six months after the start of confinement, the situation of educational centers continues to be very precarious: last-minute search for classrooms and educational spaces; high ratios of students per classroom and teacher ; misleading commitments about new hires that do not expand the centers' staff; confusing action protocols in the face of complex contingencies that may occur; lack of equipment available to students and teachers in the event of classroom closures due to contagion... In short, chaos, confusion and improvisation.



Madrid there are no minimum security conditions to guarantee that classes are in person, have continuity or will develop with a certain normality. This course also does not ensure public education. Because that is what it is about, the obligation to guarantee quality public education. And the right to receive it. It is still possible to rectify some of the wrongs that the inaction and irresponsibility of the Madrid educational authorities are going to cause. To do this, we must maintain and reinforce criticism of the educational management of the Madrid authorities and, if necessary, delay the return to class until the necessary resources are available to achieve the highest possible levels of security. That is why it is so important to reinforce the control, denunciation and mobilization tasks carried out by teaching unions and representative organizations of the rest of the components of the educational community to ensure compliance with the commitments and promises that the authorities have made at the last minute. educational.