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“It is not true that the Lisbon City Council (CML) has not been informed of the impossibility of the 1st cycle classes to function with the number of operational assistants on duty on Monday,” said the director of the Laranjeiras School Association (AEL ), in a statement sent today to parents and guardians, clarifying the information provided by the municipality.
In this context, the director of the AEL, Amílcar Albuquerque Santos, is going to ask the mayor of the municipality, Fernando Medina, “for an urgent hearing, as he is certain, from what he knows, that he will understand the reasons for the outrage ”.
On Monday, the municipality reported that “it had not previously reported any difficulties with the number of operational assistants leading to the closure of the school,” reinforcing that the Ministry of Education guidelines are exhaustive and do not allow principals to close a school. . school on their own initiative.
“Even with the infection, meanwhile detected, the Laranjeiras basic school had enough operational assistants (nine) to have considered solutions that would keep the school running, according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Education and the General Directorate of Health.” ”, Assured the Chamber, announcing that in view of the disturbance caused in the school community, it guaranteed the placement of four more operational assistants as of this Tuesday, the day on which the teaching activities of the 1st cycle were resumed.
In response to the information provided by the Chamber, which it describes as “serious statements”, the AEL today expressed its indignation and demanded the “reestablishment of the truth of the facts, in the interests of good coexistence and institutional collaboration that has always guided its relations with the municipality “. , considering that the situation “can only be derived from a deficient circulation of internal communication, since any other assumption would be unthinkable”.
Affirming that “any hypothesis of lack of respect for the regulations of the Ministry of Education is unfounded,” the group clarified that “the EB1 / JI das Laranjeiras school has not closed its activity” and stated that all the preschool / kindergarten groups they worked regularly, so “only 1st cycle classes were affected”.
On Sunday, after hearing the order of the health delegate that an operational assistant had tested positive for covid-19 and that three others would be analyzed and kept in isolation, the director of the AEL, Amílcar Albuquerque Santos, contacted him director of the Municipal Education Department.
“Consulting with him and both reaching the conclusion that, with only three remaining operational assistants, after the quarantine order decreed for four operational assistants, it would be practically impossible to maintain attendance to the almost 300 students of the 1st cycle of the school, with the Safety, security and hygiene requirements, from 08:00 to 19:00 ”, revealed the school group.
“Only by distraction, the person responsible for writing the information for the Lisbon City Council can affirm that the municipality was not aware of the situation,” stressed the director of the AEL, also correcting the number of operational assistants at the EB1 / JI das Laranjeiras school , which “effectively has seven operational assistants, since of the nine mentioned in the information from the Lisbon Chamber, two are on sick leave.”
With the collaboration of the local authority, the Laranjeiras school resumes its full activity today, with the placement of four more operational assistants to make up for the lack of employees sent to quarantine.
The classes of the students of the 1st cycle of the EB1 / JI das Laranjeiras began last Thursday.
Portugal represents at least 1,920 deaths associated with covid-19 in 69,200 confirmed cases of infection, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health (DGS).
