The Union CGT has requested the Territorial Delegation of Health and Families Yet the Territorial Delegation of Education from Cádiz the back to school delayed by the end of January thus joining the demands of the Board of Non-University Teaching Personnel, the Municipal School Council of La Línea and the Educational Community of the province in general.
Before the “fearsome Covid-19 incidence figures in the province of Cádiz, especially in the Campo de Gibraltar area and specifically in the town of La Línea but also in other areas of the province “, CGT Enseñanza de la Provincia de Cádiz wants to convey its”restlessness and that of the entire educational community for the back to class, tomorrow Monday January 11, in a really reckless conditions where the conditions of a ‘perfect storm’ occur.
CGT adds that “this return will coincide with a cold snap what will he achieve temperatures below zero in some areas of the Sierra de Cádiz and the interior of the province, with generalized frosts and probable rains on the coast if the storm continues. It prevent aeration and ventilation of classrooms as has been done so far following the protocols of educational centers, the only measure, coupled with the use of masks, has been shown to be truly effective for avoid contagion as up to now the health authorities have insisted to us according to the theory, increasingly accepted by the scientific community, of aerosols and the concentration of CO2 in classrooms ”.
CGT recalls that “most schools they violate the interpersonal safety distance in their classrooms of meter and a half paliiendo in the upper courses of Secondary, Baccalaureate and Formative Cycles of the FP with the modality of the blendedness, losing the student body ”.
For all these reasons, the union considers “inescapable · to require the Health and Education Delegations, which represent in Cádiz the Department of Health, the Department of Education and the different general directions of Seville,” the immediate delay in incorporation into the classroom, at all educational levels, at least until the end of January, to give time to mitigate the effects of the cold wave and, above all, the possible outbreaks that may arise after Christmas family contacts and the new strain that comes from Gibraltar through the United Kingdom “.
CSIF
CSIF, the leading union force in public education in the Andalusian community, has underlined “the importance of Andalusian schools have HEPA filters (High Efficiency Particulate Air) or with portable air purification devices, to minimize the probability of contagion of the coronavirus by aerosols. “
Faced with the return to the classrooms after the Christmas holidays and the low temperatures that are currently registered, the Education sector of CSIF Cádiz has insisted “on the need to have additional preventive measures to natural ventilation and the use of masks in classrooms “.
After the start of the school year and as the fall in thermometers approached in the autumn, the union “already requested the Ministry of Education and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía, as well as at councils already town halls, support so that educational centers could have this type of device “.
This demand has borne fruit “only in some cases, and always thanks to the collaboration of local corporations (Paterna, Barbate and San Martín del Tesorillo) that have also shown high involvement in this regard and have offered a very positive response to the request of CSIF. However, the vast majority of Andalusian educational centers continue to lack such material “, as explained Marian Avancino, Head of Education at CSIF Cádiz.
“It is about preventing the safety and health of both the teachers and the students from being endangered in the classes, especially when the enormous risk of contagion by aerosols Sars CoV-2 “, insisted the union spokesperson, who understands that it would also be useful in the centers to use CO2 meters to determine air quality.
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