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Minas Gerais the guidelines to be followed for the return of face-to-face classrooms in the state, although the date has not yet been set. Among other preventive measures, students should leave their materials at school and avoid physical contact with each other, such as kisses, hugs, and handshakes.
How you recommend were made by State Board of Education (CEE-MG), body that regulates the operation of public and private educational establishments (fundamental, middle and higher levels) in the state.
The extensive list of sanitary and health measures for returning to face-to-face classes was published in “Minas Gerais”, the official state body, this Thursday (17).
Also this Thursday, visiting Montes Claros, in the north of Minas, Governor Romeu Zema (Novo) announced that, although the date has not yet been set, the state government “has already begun to analyze a possible return” of face-to-face classes.
“The Department of Health, together with the Department of Education, is creating protocols. As soon as (the table) is taken as safe, according to the rates of contagion, new cases and deaths, the (face-to-face) classes will return. But we still have to remember that in no state in Brazil has this situation been normalized, ”said Zema.
He recalled that Minas Gerais had a “delay” in relation to other states, such as Amazonas, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to reach the most critical phase of the coronavirus pandemic. “(With that), if other states return now (with face-to-face classes), Minas, by logic, would have to return later. But nothing prevents us from going back sooner, ”said the governor.
The State Education Council recommends that the face-to-face return of education in Minas Gerais be done in different stages, gradually, for the more than 16 thousand basic and higher education establishments, covering the more than 5.4 million students of the two levels.
The agency justifies that the recommendations are based on “experiences, research and international studies published by institutions and organizations in the educational and health fields.”
“The return to face-to-face school activities must be gradual, by groups, stages and levels. In general, the measures are defined by protocols that involve topics such as physical distance of students, care with crowds, programming of entry and exit times, reorganization of lunch hours and their offer, with special attention to cutlery, crockery and food , hygiene protocols, use of masks, frequent hand washing, protection for older employees, alternating breaks and breaks, attention to the use of bathrooms, attention to windows and doors, which must be open, in the classroom ”, Guides CEE-MG.
The agency also suggests that, before the reopening of schools, local education authorities carry out a “survey of the effects of the pandemic on school communities, to identify cases of students who have suffered family losses, as well as teachers and professionals. of education affected by COVID-19.
Sanitary and sanitary measures
In the extensive list of sanitary measures, recommended by the EEC-MG, to prevent against the transmission of coronavrus in the return of the classroom in the state, this one:
- Readjustment of the layout of the classroom furniture, to ensure respect for the minimum necessary distance.
- Adequacy of the number of students, per class, considering the square footage of the individual space.
- Compliance with the minimum distance between employees, in the school office and other administrative departments of the school.
- Establishment of relay routines, at the time of entry, exit, breaks and other collective movements, where appropriate, of students, in order to avoid crowds.
- Physical education activities, when carried out, must respect a minimum distance of 1.5 meters and take place, preferably, in open and airy places, when it is not possible to do them in the classroom.
- Priority to natural ventilation of rooms, avoiding, whenever possible, the use of air conditioning equipment and fans.
- Demarcation and signaling of spaces, within schools, so that students keep away from each other.
- Suspended from parties, celebrations and other educational activities that generate agglomeration of members of the school community.
- Physical contact, such as kissing, hugging, and handshakes should be avoided.
- Cleaning of the school grounds, at each shift change.
- Bathrooms and kitchen should be cleaned every three hours, or whenever there is dirt or moisture.
- Students and school personnel should be instructed to avoid putting their hands in elevator hallways, jambs, handles, and buttons. These places must be constantly disinfected.
- The use of disposable materials should be prioritized.
- The school community should be encouraged to use individual water bottles.
- Access to the school, by students, staff, and the school community, must be done using a temperature gauge.
- Constant supply of all sinks and sinks, with liquid soap and paper towels. In the points of greater circulation, supports with paper towels, trash can with a lid and pedal operation and dispensers with alcohol gel should be available.
- We recommend placing rugs with a disinfectant solution for cleaning shoes, before entering the school, in addition to dispensers of alcohol gel, at the entrance of all school units, so that students and professionals wash their hands when entering and leaving from school.
- Meals should preferably be taken in classrooms, or a staggered use of the cafeteria should be established, ensuring a minimum distance between users.
- In places where school transportation is offered, the rules of social distancing must be observed, reducing the number of students, per vehicle.
