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With the worsening of the pandemic and the recommendations to serve only the students who need it most, private schools in São Paulo are already discussing changes in their service plans internally and there is even a school that is studying interrupting activities. The orientation of the private schools union is that they suspend the rotation of students and begin to receive only those who most need face-to-face classes.
Governor João Doria’s (PSDB) announcement was awaited by schools since the beginning of the week. The rise in hospital admissions has raised fears that schools may be closed. In the decreed red phase, for the next two weeks only essential activities will be allowed and schools have been included in this list.
As Estadão said, public and private schools should give priority to the most vulnerable students, which can be students with disabilities or learning difficulties, with emotional problems, eating, without connection at home for distance education. Parents who work in essential services should also be cared for. Despite allowing face-to-face classes, the State Secretary of Education, Rossieli Soares, called on universities to serve only the students who need them most. He cited students in the literacy phase and those with emotional difficulties. The maximum percentage of 35% of the capacity is maintained. Private schools across the state were instructed to collaborate to prevent the discharge of infections, but there will be no blanket rules to define which students have the most needs.
The Union of Educational Institutions of São Paulo will guide schools to stop rotating among all students who want to attend classes and focus on those who most need face-to-face assistance. “Now, let’s prioritize the child who really needs it, with whom the father has to work, who has to leave him at school,” says Benjamin Ribeiro, president of Sieeesp. For him, priority should be given to students up to the age of 9, who have more difficulties with distance classes.
According to Arthur Fonseca Filho, director of the Brazilian Association of Private Schools (Abepar), the universities are meeting to redefine plans and must cut secondary activities. Schools with two-shift activities, for example, should reduce attendance.
Yesterday afternoon, several schools held internal meetings to plan the next few weeks and sent surveys to parents about their intention to send their children to school. The Colégio Equipe studies interrupting activities for a few days. Augusto Laranja, in the southern zone, will reduce the number of students – from 50% to 35%, giving priority to the youngest.
Schools such as Bandeirantes, Gracinha and Magno, in the south zone, and Luminova, in the west zone, said that they will maintain the limit of 35% of the capacity of the students, with attention to the sanitary protocols.
According to Rossieli Soares, each unit, in conversation with parents and teachers, must define which students are priority. For the state network, it established that priority should be given to the most vulnerable students and those with learning difficulties.
The information is from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.
