The subject of face-to-face or virtual classes is back to warm up the beginning of the term. The ADP, now led by Eduardo Hidalgo, from the union’s PLD movement, is against reopening the classrooms.
All health and educational specialists, local and international, have insisted throughout the pandemic that schools are safer for children than staying at home and in the neighborhood. That the disease is by no means serious at those ages and that the delays in the education of these groups are going to be significant. Again, if the teachers ‘“concerns” are attended to, the students will be able to go to the cinema, to the park, to the beach, to the supermarket, to their friends’ house, to the grocery store … school!
No, virtual education has not worked for public school students. And it has not performed satisfactorily (although it has been less bad) in private schools. There is no educator who disputes this.
The 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 courses were approved without many requirements. Those promotions made it to college more easily than anything before, let’s put it that way. Nor are they receiving the desirable higher education. And we are already on a weakened third course.
Almost all of the members of the supervisory committee of the teaching contest resigned due to the worrisome failures with which it was developed. The books were also not ready until this January (and you have to confirm that there are enough). Education continues to be the great problem of Dominican society. Of the future of all.
