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Going back to school continues without offering clear answers to the parents' uncertainty. Despite the skyrocketing number of Covid-19 cases and the many unknowns open just a few weeks before the start of the school year, the Ministry of Education for now is neglecting to establish concrete measures or to protect a general plan to all of Spain.

Sources from the Department headed by Isabel Celaá hide behind the fact that educational competences are in the hands of the autonomous communities, and that it is these that have to be in charge of establishing the protocols for the return of children to classrooms.

From the Ministry of Education it is defended that this is extensible both the date of the beginning of the course and everything that has to do with it, especially prevention measures or action in the face of the health crisis.

"The calendar is still valid"

Regarding the first, it is noted that the Ministry of Education "is not evaluating any modification" about the beginning of the school year because it was already agreed last June that it would begin "on the usual dates of September." This "continues in force", these sources emphasize, as well as the "presence" of children in the classroom as a "general principle".

In this way, Education dispels the idea of ​​ordering a general postponement on going back to school. "Setting the specific date for the start of the course is the responsibility of the autonomous communities. In fact, the course does not start the same day throughout the territory, neither this course nor any other," they say. This year this will happen between September 4 and 15.

Likewise, Education directs all the responsibility of the protocols for the return to class to the autonomous communities, "which have full educational management skills", and limits their role in this crisis scenario to giving "recommendations". "The autonomous communities are working on the protocols for the return to face-to-face activity since June, following the recommendations made by the Ministries of Health and Education," it is noted.

This week there are two meetings called that generate expectations when it comes to offering clear answers to parents in the face of the many unknowns. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the regional vice councilors for Education meet with the 'number two' of the Ministry, Alejandro Tiana. Two days later, on Thursday, it will be the turn of the regional councilors of the branch with the ministers of Health, Education and Territorial Policy.

PP: "Leadership is missing"

The new PP spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Cuca Gamarra , accused the Government on Monday of "absolute negligence" in managing the pandemic, for "abandoning its functions" of coordination both in the health field and in the educational, leaving all measures in the hands of the autonomous communities.

In an interview in Onda Cero collected by Servimedia, he assured that the meeting scheduled for Thursday to coordinate the start of the school year arrives "very late" and for many weeks "leadership has been lacking" from the Government and, especially, from the Minister Celaá.

The beginning of the course "is already there", he warned, and both students and parents, teachers and all those linked to the educational field "have to organize", but the Government "improvises" after weeks of "leaving functions" .

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