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Governor João Doria will announce this Thursday 17 that Public and private schools can remain open even if the state is in the worst phase of the pandemic., the red stage. Today, education can only return to the yellow phase, to which all the regions of São Paulo are now. Thus, even if the situation of transmission of the coronavirus and hospitalizations worsens in February, upon returning from vacation, schools could return with 35% of students in person, according to the StayI discovered.
The authorization will be for the schools You can teach regular classes and not just extracurricular activities., as City has allowed so far for most of the series.
In the red phase, until then only essential services, such as supermarkets and pharmacies, could function. With the change, the government continues what European countries did during the second wave of the pandemic. France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Portugal, for example, bars, closed restaurants and part of the trade, but it allowed the schools to keep running. New York also reopened schools just days after closing last month after heavy pressure from scientists and parents.
The government must now allow 100% of children return in person when the state is in the green phase, 70% in the yellow phase, and 35% in the red phase. Until then, all students could only go to school when the blue stage, called the “new normal”, was reached.
Another difference is that the plan will be regionalized, that is, if one region of the State is in the green phase, it can open more than another in the yellow phase, for example. Before, education had to be made flexible in the same way across the state.
Even with the decision of the State, the municipalities may be more restrictive in terms of opening schools in the municipalities, as has already happened in the capital. But the São Paulo decree will establish that cities must publish the reason for the greater restriction on education to be effective.
The movement to value schools as an essential activity has grown around the world in the last months of the pandemic, with the understanding that leaving them closed for a long time has caused enormous damage to children and society. These new decisions helped the fact that published scientific research shows low contamination and transmission in school settings.
Investigation of private school entities in São Paulo showed that 86% of schools had no covid cases since they opened in September. Parent groups and pediatricians have also led movements for schools to reopen at the beginning of the school year. In an interview with StatusExpert Daniel Becker said that keeping schools closed in 2021 is a “crime against children.”
The education was authorized to operate in September by the government, with 35% of the students in person. In the capital, however, the City Council only allowed the opening in October, with 20% of the capacity and only in extracurricular activities, as it continues today. Only high school was authorized in November to return to classes, in fact, in person.
The new São Paulo decree also authorizes higher education to operate in the yellow phase with up to 35% of enrollments and, in the green phase, with up to 70%. Higher specific courses in the medical field can return in all phases of the plan.
The State Secretary of Education, Rossieli Soares, is in favor of the idea of keeping education open and has said that eventual cases of contamination they are not “the school’s fault.” There are reports of parties among students outside the school environment that, according to him, contribute to the transmission.
At a press conference, the municipal secretary of Education, Bruno Caetano, said this Wednesday that the City intends for schools to return in person in February, but the decision still depends on the situation of the pandemic. This month, Mayor Bruno Covas nIt did not allow more flexibilities than expected for education.
In Germany, despite having maintained schools during the second closure, the government brought the holidays forward this week and will leave schools closed until January 10 for fear of high cases during the Christmas and New Year period.
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