Cáceres Denialist parents refuse to allow their two daughters to go to school with masks and a separate class is set up for them
Absence The two sisters from Cáceres who were without a mask do not go to school
They did not arrive at the time of the official entrance to the school (09.00 hours) and yes more than an hour later, perhaps to avoid the media focus, but the fact is that the
two minor sisters
, Third and Fifth Primary, who They began the school year without masks in the classrooms, which sparked controversy in the school (with protests from teachers and students, forcing the Board to finally ban them from entering)
have returned to the classrooms today
. And they have done it to loud applause from their peers. Each one in her class with her classmates, now wearing masks, developing the school day with normality "and joy" until the end of the classes.
This has been explained by the Secretary General of Education of the Extremadura Board,
Francisco Javier Amaya
, who has been satisfied that the situation has been redirected thanks to the "dialogue" and
"mediation" between the administration, the minors' tutors and the parents
during those last days, despite the fact that the general administration had announced last week that it had put the case in the hands of the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office for a possible case of school absenteeism. In any case, Amaya has specified that they will wait for the resolution of this judicial body to
"know how to act" if similar cases occur again in the future.
, where some rights of minors are put at stake, in this case the right to Health and Education, "above all to serve as an example, to take into account how to act when the best interests of the minor are not prevalent ".
The educational manager has highlighted "the outstretched hand" of the school director and "the good predisposition always to constant dialogue with the family when it comes to listening to what the situation was being experienced". With regard to any responsibility of the parents, Francisco Javier Amaya has made it clear that the Ministry considers the conflict to be "resolved, because obviously there is an understanding of all the parties and because normality has always been recovered since the application of the rules and regulations. the protocols of the educational context ". Amaya has requested the collaboration of the media so that the CEIP Alba Plata de Cáceres and
the two affected girls "stop being the focus of attention"
and the center can resume the school year with total normality.
Teachers' protests at the school gates, last week.DAVID VIGARIO
The parents of the minors, 'deniers', had warned the
CEIP Alba Plata
bilingual center
, in writing through a 'burofax', a day before starting the school year, that their daughters were not going to wear masks to school and the The first two days they were allowed to share class with the rest of the students, located at desks near the windows. When the
complaints from parents and teachers began due to the lack of security
due to the pandemic, the Junta de Extremadura then ordered that they receive classes in a separate classroom, separated from the rest of the students, and when the protests and controversy already multiplied,
the regional administration has already prohibited them from entering the center without masks
, thus taking advantage of the regulations that oblige those over six years of age to do so in educational centers if they do not have any medical prescription that indicates otherwise.
ONLINE CLASSES
The Board offered them to teach classes (tutoring and completion of work) electronically, despite the fact that
the center has not had an internet connection for about a year and a half
due to some works in the educational center.
The parents then decided - since last Thursday - that their daughters should not go to the educational center ... until today, four school days later.
And this time yes, for the first time, they wore the mandatory masks, thus complying with the regulations and with the condition required by the Ministry of Education -after their correction- to be able to access the premises.
Amaya has reported that
the girls have been received amid applause by their classmates
and has stated that at all times the teachers have been in contact with the girls during all these days that they have missed class after being prohibited by the Junta de Extremadura.
First, the Ministry of Education allowed their entry into the classrooms so that
the right to education prevailed,
but in the face of protests from parents and teachers, including the entire teaching staff, at the gates of the center, they backed off and prohibited access to the classrooms to the two sisters if they were not wearing the mask.
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