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There is no autonomous community that defends the government's prevention and hygiene plan to return to the classroom in September. That is why Isabel Celaá was knocked down on Thursday, at the Sectorial Conference on Education , and that is why the minister has been forced to clarify that the 26-page protocol contains only mere recommendations. Pedro Sánchez has even repeated it this Sunday, after the Conference of Presidents: they do not impose anything. The only mandatory thing is that the students are 1.5 meters apart from each other because it is contemplated in a royal decree that imposes this distance and, if it cannot be maintained, forces the children to wear masks. But even this requirement (which has been lowered, since previously two meters were requested) is not liked by regional governments.

The barons of Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha were the first of the PSOE to publicly stand out after the Conference of Presidents of a plan that Madrid , Catalonia , the Basque Country and Galicia have already rejected .

The Aragon Javier Lambán has asked that the return to classes take place with a ratio of students per classroom "slightly higher" than that of between 15 and 20 students recommended by the Government and that the safety distance between students be one meter in place of the 1.5 meters that the central Executive proposes. And the Castilian- Manchego Emiliano García-Page has claimed "to leave a flexibility clause approaching the WHO parameter".

"The World Health Organization establishes that one meter is sufficient to guarantee health," Lambán recalled at a press conference. It is the same claim that regions like Galicia make, which appeal to the meter of distance that has been determined, for example, in Belgium . But, when Celaá was asked on Thursday if the CCAA could reduce the distance to less than 1.5 meters, he replied that, if he does that, "he will be breaking the law."

So if Aragon decides that its students keep a distance of one meter, instead of 1.5, it would be violating the regulations; specifically, the royal decree 21/2020 that the Council of Ministers approved last Tuesday.

Page, for his part, has argued: "Parents are the most nervous, rightly or wrongly, and it is very difficult to transfer normality to society if we get attacked or think that in September there will be problems. We carry a contradictory message Therefore, even though we have all the prudence, I call attention to how difficult it is to manage education in very large places with many school transports and many classrooms, but at the same time we even have problems in being able to recruit more people. I wish we had a little bit more flexibility so that we can have no added difficulties. "

Ratios of 23 students in Aragon

Regarding the ratio of students per classroom, Celaá's position has been changing. First he spoke of reducing it to 15 children and now he admits up to 20. The regional presidents are opposed because reducing the ratios implies enabling new learning spaces and hiring more teachers. Both Sánchez this Sunday and Celaá on Thursday imply that here the autonomous communities will be able to do what they consider. Of course, as long as they respect the meter and a half away.

Lambán has said that the government's measures are "unfeasible". "We would not have enough classrooms and it would mean a volume of hiring teachers for which we do not have resources," he denounced. That would lead them, he has warned, to a system of rotating shifts like the one envisaged at the university, with some students at school and others at home, which would "impede" the reconciliation of work and family.

The alternative measures being studied by the Government of Aragon are ratios of 22 and even 23 students per classroom up to eight years old, against the criteria of the teachers unions, which are very angry with Celaá.

Lambán has asked for the modification of the royal decree 21/2020. If this were done, he said, "teaching in Aragon could begin in early September with absolute normality and with the full satisfaction of all the groups involved, since it guarantees safety and guarantees family and work-life balance." He warned that "if that rule is not repealed," the course will continue to be in the presence of the students in the classrooms but "necessarily with masks" because the 1.5 meter distance "is impossible to meet."

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