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The Government has delayed going back to school until September, but it is increasingly unclear that the next course will be normal. The Minister of Education , Isabel Celaá, has taken for granted this Monday that "if there is no vaccine, the schools will have half the students in the classrooms."

The Executive's de-escalation plan foresees that the return to the classrooms will take place around mid-September. It will depend, in any case, on the autonomous communities, since they are the ones that set the course start date. The idea is to return to those dates, but in small groups, to avoid students failing to comply with the measures of social distance.

This means that the rest of the students will have to stay at home and continue learning at a distance.

"Until we have a remedy or a vaccine, the only tool to fight the virus is confinement. We cannot put everything at risk at risk. If we speak, to put a number, of three million children in Primary , who come to the school accompanied by an adult, imagine the movement that occurs. In addition, if all children attend at the same time we will not be able to safeguard the required distance, "Celaá said in an interview with El Heraldo de Aragón.

"One part in person and the other telematically"

Celaá added that his department is working on a plan to guarantee the safety distance for 2020/2021 , but, "if there is no remedy, the centers will have to be at half their capacity. This forces part of students are working in person and another part, telematically ".

Sources from the Ministry explain that Celaá "is working with the Autonomous Communities to organize the beginning of the next academic year" and that "it is necessary to see how educational activities can be organized while maintaining the essential health security measures."

The minister also recalled that the beginning of the course "will be a reinforcement of those essential contents that have not been studied in depth at the end of this 2019/2020 ". The Government has left in the autonomous communities the modification of the curriculum, a competition that should be state, so that all students study the same in all territories.

From next day 25 , the Government plans to return to the classrooms only for children under six years of age whose two parents work and cannot attend to them, for students in 4th ESO , 2nd Bachillerat or 2nd FP and also for Primary and Secondary students in need of reinforcement.

Unions do not want to return until September

Teacher unions do not want the return to occur before September, especially if adequate security measures are not taken. UGT has said that the reinforcement classes are not within the ordinary and that they should be taught by personnel from outside the center. CSIF , Anpe , CCOO or FSIE also reject the return.

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso , has demanded, for her part, that there be a return to the classrooms of all students for at least 15 days during this course. He wants that the return of the students of 4º of ESO and 2º of Bachillerato be "obligatory and not voluntary", so that they can be examined in person.

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