Teachers are obliged to stay in at least three municipalities in Cochabamba, while giving face-to-face classes, with the aim that when entering and leaving those territories they do not carry the coronavirus.
The executive of the Urban Magisterium of Cochabamba, Norma Barrón, confirmed that this occurs in Villa Tunari, Totora and Independencia, by determination of the parents.
Particularly in Independencia this situation overflowed yesterday. Parents with school-age children blocked an access bridge to that municipality to prevent teachers from leaving.
According to Barrón, they also ratified that “they will not leave (Independence). Only the infected have to retreat into their homes, but no one goes out ”.
The Federation also denounced that the district director of Independencia, Noemí Ramírez, was intercepted on the road and “mistreated and insulted” by the people.
Barrón regretted that the families of that municipality “live on a different planet”, because they put their children at risk by demanding face-to-face classes in the midst of a new outbreak of the disease.
The Executive denounced that children go to educational establishments without masks or alcohol “for them there is no problem” and there are infections with COVID.
There are at least 180 educators required to stay there.
EMERGENCY
The Federation has declared an “emergency”. Barrón said that they await the response of the Government and the Departmental Directorate of Education (DDE) on the case of Independence.
He warned that, if the parents of that region do not decline this “arrogant, abusive, dictatorial and even slave-owning” attitude, a commission will go “to the rescue of the teachers.”
He explained that these teachers complied with virtual classes during the first and second waves, “they did not abandon their students.”
The suggestion of the teachers of Independencia is to enter the population once a week with primers. They ruled out online education because many there do not have internet.
OTHER PLACES
This also occurs with the teachers who teach students from Villa Tunari and Totora.
In February, Barrón warned that “in the tropics they are making them take classes with large groups and without biosecurity, it is a risk.”
In January, in the region of the Tropic of Cochabamba, they determined that the classes, which began on February 1, would be face-to-face. For that, in municipalities such as Villa Tunari they determined that teachers arrive with negative coronavirus tests and the division of student groups to no more than 20 per classroom.
VACCINATION
Barrón said that teachers have a vacation to get vaccinated, but, in his opinion, that is not the solution. The return to classes must include the provision of biosecurity measures for schoolchildren.
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