Due to the covid-19 pandemic, in The lagoon They have closed around 15 private schools, for this reason, about 300 teachers have been unemployed while in the entity from 50 to 70 schools they had to suspend work.
Rodolfo Silva, president of the National Association of Private Education Institutions AC, announced that it is a fact that online school achievement has been achieved only 85 percent.
Notes that At the beginning of the school year, 2020-2021, some educational centers lost up to 60 percent of their enrollment, which is why they had to liquidate personnel and the educational institutions that had the most luck and that surviveThey also had a loss, only that this was less, they calculate it at 30 percent, in addition they have had to grant scholarships of 30 to 50 percent to show solidarity and encourage parents or guardians to remain in private educational establishments.
“The situation for private schools, far from improving, remains complicated. The only hope that it will improve is when the federal government tells us that the vaccine is ready and that it will be delivered without political overtones. We observe that they are postponing the date and each time the difficult economic situation worsens for this reason, it is urgent that the inoculation of the population begins. We are in the private schools well ”, he affirmed.
He said that 2020 ended with meeting goals of 85 percent in school achievement that includes aspects such as attendance, learning and efficiency and that sports, cultural and musical activities were lacking. It will definitely never be the same face-to-face school achievement as online.
At this time, around 80 percent of the educational centers have the hybrid system and in the Laguna Region there are a little more than 500 private educational centers from preschool to university and in the state there were 1,700, throughout the state they have closed from 50 to 100.
“As long as the educational centers comply with the health regulations, because nobody wants the situation to be complicated, it is because they are asked to have strict health protocols and few students. From preschool to high school and in cases of undergraduate degrees, the physical presence of teachers is required, ”he said.
Regarding the educational centers that closed, he said that the regulation allows them to be closed for up to two years, if in this time it is not reactivated, then they are withdrawn.
In the Laguna Region, 70 teachers have died from covid-19, which is why it asks both local and federal legislators to work in favor of Coahuila and Mexicans.
It states that the hybrid system is voluntary in Coahuila and the decision rests with the parents; In order for their children to use this system, they must supervise that the educational center in question has the necessary protocols.
A Through a statement, the National Association of Private Education Institutions “Justo Sierra, AC” asked to include the private teaching sector in the scheme for the priority application of the vaccine against covid-19.
“In the teaching sector we have had countless deaths, mainly in the public sector, but above all it is necessary to make this decision so that in general schools there is a face-to-face return to classes as far as possible”, expressed Silva Rosales.
He indicated that in the public sector, in many cases, children lost the previous school year and the current one due to technical deficiencies and the unemployment of their parents.
91% of minors attend classes regularly
The Secretary of Education in Coahuila, Higinio González Calderón, announced that in public educational centers, 91 percent of minors attend school regularly, 7 percent attend intermittently and 2 percent are absent from a universe of 613 thousand children.
“In a normal way, that is, before the pandemic, the dropout percentage that was registered at the primary level was just under 1 percent and they also detected migration of students to their places of origin, which is why they reached 1.2 percent so far.”
For students who have an intermittent situation, he said that the teachers with each minor make a plan according to the circumstance of each one of them.
“The teachers know that some of them belong to families that have a difficult economic situation and that sometimes they do not have to support them, they even put them to work for a while.”
On the other hand, he explained that the Ministry of Health has indicated that the return to classes will not be total, not all schools will open at the same time, nor will all children go to school on the same day, it is a blended modality .
“It is a gradual process in the incorporation that would take two or three weeks, there is no date. It will be the Ministry of Health who will say when they will return to classes. Right now the pandemic is behaving very well and the process can be advanced to how we were 10 days ago, it could be possible that before the month of August since it is urgent for us, parents too ”, he said.
There are schools that have suffered damage to the infrastructure due to theft, mainly, and they must be fixed very quickly.
“More than 350 educational centers have suffered damages of all levels, from minors, adults and of all kinds. In the rainy season, only around 13 schools lost, for example, the perimeter fence that ranges from 10 to 15 meters to 300, so some can be repaired with 200 thousand pesos and others, depending on the damage, up to millions ”.
He explained that valuable devices from educational centers cannot be stolen since they are kept under guard. With regard to private education, he said that 30 educational centers have closed temporarily and have two years to reactivate, otherwise they are terminated.
Finally, he pointed out that there is an economic allocation for compliance with health protocols in Educational Centers, as well as to repair them once they return to classes.
Inequalities will impact on student achievement: Flor Renteria
The head of the Undersecretary of Education in the Lagunera Region of Coahuila, Flor Renteria Medina, announced that, in the Lagunera Region, 200 thousand students study in basic education, which includes preschool, primary and secondary school, and so far 14 thousand students They have had intermittent communication and approximately 1,400 have not had any contact, therefore, they have lost the sequence of the educational program since not all have a computer, internet or WhatsApp, which definitely means an impact on achievement and will be evident in the next school term .
“Definitely, social inequalities have been a determining factor because many of our students have not been able to have more constant communication with their teachers to date, not all of them have WhatsApp, internet, telephone or computer, this will impact on a lag in terms of approach to content in the next school year ”.
Without a doubt, he said that one of the challenges that they have to face is to standardize learning the next school year.
“Of the 200 thousand students who are registered in the Laguna Region, 14 thousand students have not had continuous communication, that is, intermittent, therefore the sequence has been lost. Until the end of the school term, we can define the dropout rate for each of the grades, since at this time they are expected to work on the free textbook at home or doing the activities that they are assigned to do and due to lack of connectivity. evidence is not sent, “he said.
He said that the 14 thousand students have not been evaluated because the information they have sent about their work, the evidence, the activities they send to their teachers, have not been constant and the teacher does not have the possibility of assigning the passing grade therefore, you have to wait for the end of the school year.
“Perhaps we could speak of the fact that, of the 14 thousand students who do not have an assessment, approximately 10 percent, that is, around 1,400 have not had any contact.”
In La Laguna de Coahuila they include the municipalities of Torreón, Matamoros, Viesca, Francisco I. Madero and San Pedro and there are some inequalities since not all have technological tools to maintain contact with teachers.
“Definitely inequality will impact on a lag in the approach to content for the next school year.”
Regarding the private schools that are incorporated into the Ministry of Education in the municipality of Torreón, he said that he has a record of eight schools that decided to close during the pandemic, which served a population of 1,270 students, who they went to public schools.
“In August, we received approximately 3,000 requests to change schools, 80 percent from private to public schools,” he said.
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