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The TJSP (São Paulo State Court of Justice) accepted a popular action demanding that the São Paulo City Council and the São Paulo government have the necessary sanitary conditions to guarantee a safe return to face-to-face classes in the 2021 academic year. application was accepted yesterday. by Judge Carla Montesso Eberlei, who set a period of ten days for the City Council and the government to be summoned to prove the adoption of measures to resume face-to-face activities in schools.
Today, a day after the TJSP decision, the São Paulo government announced that it will allow the opening of public and private schools in February 2021, including in the red phase of the São Paulo Plan, which corresponds to the worst rates of the pandemic. .
“Students have been without classes in the classroom for nine months. During this period, there was no effective planning and schedule carried out by the government for students to safely return to the classroom, in addition to teachers and other employees,” said to the Twitter Alessandro De Rose Ghilardi, one of the attorneys who helped draft the class action.
“The government was more concerned about the reopening of a bar and a gym, than about schools. Education was in the background,” he said.
Request for periodic activity report
In the popular action, the applicants also request that a report be periodically presented on the activities developed for the preparation of schools, personnel and teachers in the resumption of face-to-face classes.
“Considering that the moment of reopening must be evaluated and reassessed due to the most recent epidemiological data, I grant urgent protection so that the defendants are summoned to prove the adoption of the necessary measures for the resumption of face-to-face activities,” the judge wrote.
For her, the return to face-to-face school activities is “absolutely necessary”, but it must be done in adequate conditions to avoid risks to the health of students, education professionals and their families.
In her decision, Judge Carla Montesso Eberlein summons the city and the government of São Paulo to clarify a series of questions in ten days:
- How many and which schools are in their respective educational systems located in the Capital District;
- What actions have been carried out since July to this moment in each of the public schools in their respective systems – to comply with the health protocols established by the Education Departments themselves, detailing the reforms carried out, improvements in school environments, provision of personal protection equipment and hygiene and sanitation;
- Clarify how many and what were the training activities for education workers in each of the units, specifying if all schools have a full staff of teachers and other servants and if additional workers were hired, including cleaning activities;
- Inform the list of schools that, due to structural or conservation problems, still do not have the appropriate environmental conditions to resume face-to-face activities;
- Inform if there is a scheduled date for the resumption of face-to-face classes and present a schedule of work, preparation of school environments and training actions for school teams scheduled for the month of January;
- Clarify the measures already adopted or in progress for the control actions of the health surveillance teams and teacher supervision to certify the preconditions of compliance with the protocols for resuming face-to-face activities in private schools;
- Present, after the initial report, every ten days, information on the progress in the fulfillment of the necessary measures for the preparation of school environments and equipment and on the updates of the schedule for resuming face-to-face activities;
- Clarify whether education workers are expected to be included in the priority publicity of the vaccination plans that have been made known, in particular the one presented by the São Paulo state government.
The responsible authorities must prove their commitment so that the return is assured.
Carla Montesso Eberlein, judge of the TJSP
The state says it will present the plan
Seduc-SP (Secretary of State for Education) sent a note to the Twitter, in which it affirms that “it will present the plan within the proposed term”.
According to the João Doria government (PSDB), for the resumption of classes, “Seduc-SP acquired and distributed a series of supplies intended for both students and servers, such as 12 million cloth masks, more than 440 thousand masks (protector acrylic facial), 10,740 laser thermometers, 10,000 gel alcohol totems, 221,000 liters of liquid soap, 78 million disposable cups, 112,000 liters of gel alcohol, 100 million rolls of paper towels and 1.8 million rolls of toilet paper “.
“The 5.1 thousand state schools received R $ 700 million through the Dinheiro Direto en la Escuela de SP Program this year 2020. This money was allocated to the maintenance and conservation of the units for the safe return of face-to-face classes. More 700 million are already being released for preparations for the 2021 school year. “
Wanted for Twitter, the Municipality of São Paulo has not yet come forward.
