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The The Senate Committee on Education officiated at the Minister of Education, Raúl Figueroa, so that you plan a process of returning to face-to-face classes only “once the necessary sanitary conditions are in place in accordance with the reality of each one of the regions of the country and listening, previously, to the Advisory Council Covid-19 “.
In the document, approved unanimously, the collegiate body indicates that the school closings in the context of the new coronavirus pandemic, it was “a correct decision, oriented to privilege the sanitary security of the country and the health and life of the people over other needs and rights. However, It is essential that this be done within a framework that allows the greatest possible certainty to be delivered to the entire educational community“
“It is precisely in this scenario that the Education Commission has listened to different experts and we believe that it is essential that the government authorities and in particular the Ministry of Education can deliver the greatest possible certainty to the students and their families, in order to reduce the damage educational, but also those emotional and socio-affective that this situation produces “, explains the instance.
In this sense, the commission asks the Government evaluate the end of the first semester of the academic year; re-evaluate the application of the Simce 2020; suspend repetition for this year; postpone the teaching evaluation and redefine the PSU transition exam “shortly”, “delimiting the contents”.
“As the Education Commission we are concerned that there are some decisions that the Executive is making where it is not collecting from specialists, from education experts, and it seems to us that, particularly in a climate of mistrust such as that experienced by our country, the decisions of the authority must have all the legitimacy of the world“expressed the senator Jaime Quintana (PPD), president of the instance, to Cooperative.
“What happens with education is essential to control the pandemic,” said the opposition member of parliament.
In this sense, he questioned the decision of the Mineduc to carry out the Simce test anyway, but with a diagnostic focus and without consequences for schools: “The minister came out just in a totally different sense”.
