Sure after a Spiderman mask, he walks through the door of the Peñalba school for the first time, with three years and with the conviction that “the coronavirus does not like school.” His trust and support in his older brother contrasts with his parents’ fear of the challenge that this course that has started today in Ponferrada for Infant and Primary students becomes. “We know that the virus is there and we fear that at any moment we will have to return home with them,” says the father before the microphones of Radio Bierzo while the mother convinces herself that “teachers and children will know how to do it well.”
It is one of the many similar scenes collected this morning at the gates of the Ponferrada schools. In a dozen of them, municipal police officers have guarded the entrance to prevent breaches by parents of health security measures while they let their children access schools alone, because this year they could not accompany them until midnight. lessons.
The constant changes in the regulations of the Junta de Castilla y León have had until the last minute the management team of Valentín García Yebra helping to place chairs in spaces such as the Library or the Music classroom, to convert them into classrooms. There, precisely, one of the parents of a girl in the first year of infantile showed his refusal to allow his daughter to enter class until the Board gives guarantees of sanitary safety to the little ones who in groups of 25 will move freely around class and without a mask. The director, Pilar Lago, reminded him that the decision will lead to the absence being considered as absenteeism while asking for peace of mind and confidence in the beginning of the course “that we will know how to move forward together.”
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