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The Justice of Saint Paul this Thursday 28 suspended the resumption of face-to-face classes in the State of São Paulo. According to the decision of Judge Simone Gomes Rodrigues Casoretti, of the Ninth Court of Public Finance of the Capital, the effects of the decree of December last year, which authorized the resumption of classes and classroom activities in public and private schools, including in the most restrictive quarantine flexibility plan (orange and red). The worsening of the pandemic, according to her, motivated the decision.
According to the Secretary of State for Education, Rossieli Soares, the State has not yet been notified and the planning for the return is progressing normally. In a note, the government stated that “it will appeal the preliminary decision, since it contradicts the guidelines of the São Paulo Plan.” And that “the priority of the Ministry of Education is the safety and health of all students and education employees, in addition to the right to education, food security and emotional health of all our students.” According to the State, in 2020 1,700 public schools were reopened and there was no record of covid transmission within the units.
Currently, all regions of the state are in the red or orange phases of the state economic reopening program, under the administration of João Doria (PSDB). In the private network, the reopening of schools was authorized as of February 1 and, in public schools, the return to 8 had already been postponed. In municipal schools in the capital, the expected date for the return of students It is February 15.
The executive president of Todos pela Educação, Priscila Cruz, described the court’s decision as regrettable. “The true priority of education is manifested in these types of decisions. In any other more developed country, the reopening of schools was considered essential ”.
In the second wave of the pandemic in Europe, countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom kept schools open even during the closure period, supported by the argument of the importance of education and international studies showing that schools do not it is a place of great importance. covid transmission. For Priscila, in addition to its importance for children, in the most varied dimensions of their development, school is “a pillar of support for economic recovery and the reduction of inequalities deepened by the pandemic itself.”
The public civil action was filed by Apeoesp, the teachers’ union of the São Paulo school network, and by the Federation of Teachers of the State of São Paulo (Fepesp). The magistrate argues that education professionals “will not be exposed only in the classroom, but also in the journeys made by public transport, a space that, notoriously, provides a large concentration of people.” Still according to her, “there is a risk of exposure to the virus both on the way home to the teaching units, due to interaction with students, as well as in public transport, in forced interaction with other adults, because both points of congestion of human beings, “continued Simone.
In addition, he maintains that teachers cannot be exposed to “places where the transmission of the virus is intense, without vaccination.” However, the prioritization of the vaccine for teachers or other professionals considered essential has not yet been mentioned in the immunization plan of the Ministry of Health.
The pediatric infectious disease specialist of the Sociedade Brasiliera de Pediatria, Marco Aurélio Safadi, considers the Court’s decision “hypocritical and wrong.” “It goes against all scientific evidence.” She says studies show that school is a safer environment than many of the activities children do when they leave school. “This decision does not protect and still condemns children. pedagogical, emotional, nutritional damage of being out of school “.
The president of the Brazilian Association of Private Schools (Abepar), which groups together elite schools in São Paulo, said he was surprised by the decision and that he hopes it will be overthrown as soon as possible. “I regret this news as a citizen. It interrupts the process that the schools have been doing, makes students and families anxious and worried,” he said. Even so, according to him, private schools will continue to organize the return scheduled for day 1.
For the president of Apeoesp, Bebel Noronha, “it’s not about not wanting to go back” to schools. “It is because there are no conditions, especially with regard to the control of the disease in the state of São Paulo and in Brazil,” says Bebel, a state deputy for the PT. The teachers were summoned to plan activities at the school, starting this Friday. According to her, if there is a forced return, there will be a strike in the category.
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