Monterrey, NL. The Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) New Lion, together with the representation of more than 50 educational, business and civil society organizations, urged the state government to consider education as an essential activity and decide on a safe and responsible return to schools, otherwise, children and adolescents They will have a serious impact on your intellectual and emotional development.
The CEO of Coparmex Nuevo Leon, Iván Rivas Rodríguez, stressed that education in technical schools is crucial to have specialized personnel, especially because in March 2021, state economic activity is returning to levels prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Regina Garza, representative of the collective Open my School in Nuevo León indicated that this Sunday, August 8, they will demonstrate together with their children, on the ground floor of the Monterrey Municipal Palace and will advance to the Ministry of Health to “demand that the authorities return to the classrooms now,” since they have been in unsuccessfully seeking to be received by state authorities.
For his part, Javier E. González Jiménez, founder of the Welfare Institute, called on the State Secretary of Health, Manuel de la O. Cavazos, to make a decision, “it is not an act of rebellion (the demonstration), we understand the severity of the pandemic; We believe that it is a social injustice that all economic activities are open except schools, which should be considered as an essential activity ”.
According to federal statistics, he pointed out, in the country only 53,000 children have been infected, which represents 2.1% of the confirmed cases of Covid-19 that amount to 2.5 million, and there have only been 569 deaths in children under 15 years of age, which means 0.2% of all deaths from this virus.
On the other hand, they mentioned that in the state there are 70,000 students who do not have a television and cannot take distance education and that there are around 450,000 students who do not have internet and have to invest in cards to participate in online classes.
Adopt a school
The organizations want to be part of the solution, therefore, they are going to launch the Adopt a School program, “so that a safe and responsible return to school can occur,” said Regina Garza, representative of the group.
He explained that they will work with directors and supervisors of some schools who are willing to return to classes, whom they will be able to support with the cost of lower maintenance.
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