Celaá: "Today there would not be a definitive closure of schools as we did in March"

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Almost half a year has passed since the pandemic confined Spaniards to their homes and the Government is beginning to recognize that some measures that were taken then would not have been adopted now. One of them is the general suspension of face-to-face classes. "Today I would not make a definitive closure of schools as we did in March," said the Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá this Monday. "Today we know more about childhood in relation to Covid than we did in March. And children are not as disseminating as was believed," he stressed.

The Government is convinced that, above all, all children have to return to the classroom in person. That is why he insists that the school is a safe place and ensures that "the teachers are excited to start" the new course. But citizens are not trusting: teachers are not clear that the measures adopted are sufficient and a good part of the families are considering not taking their children to class.

Celaá has acknowledged that he has not had time to visit any school, but has defended, immediately afterwards, that "all the autonomous communities and all of Europe have the firm intention of opening schools." "We are facing something that we had never faced before. This pandemic is full of uncertainties and it has been necessary to generate figures as it has progressed," Celaá has justified in an interview on Onda Cero.

This Monday the European member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) will meet to analyze the beginning of the school year. The doctrine currently in force in which children are less likely to suffer complications from the disease and that most of them present a picture of mild or asymptomatic infection. Furthermore, they appear to have a lower transmission capacity in contexts of controlled community transmission.

But what if there are students who are asymptomatic? What if they come home and infect their grandparents? And what is the bubble group for when some students hang out with others after school? Celaá has called for the responsibility of families to minimize the risks that exist outside the educational centers. "When we say that we close leisure time to open schools it makes sense. Children would not be infected if they did not bring the virus from outside. It is important that they do not go to school with symptoms," he stressed.

Of course, he has opted not to close schools if there are outbreaks in them, unless there is an uncontrolled and generalized transmission. He considers that, if students from a school are sent home, "these children would want to go to other districts to be educated." But the Government here cannot make that decision, as it will be the autonomous community that decides in each case, according to the agreement reached last Thursday between the minister and the regional councilors. Celaá has insisted a lot that educational competencies are transferred to the CCAA: "Even if I wanted to, I couldn't get involved, I couldn't organize an educational center. I'd like to."

The minister, on the other hand, has cooled the possibility that paid leave for parents who care for their children due to Covid materialize, a measure that her department wanted to implement. Celaá has been referred to the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who a few days ago said that the Me take care plan is open, which allows a more flexible workday for workers, but without compensation.

Celaá has defended that the CCAA had government guidelines since June to organize the return to the classrooms and that what his Ministry presented last week was an update of the health protocol. Despite this, it has pulled the ears of the Government of the Community of Madrid, which acted exactly the same as the central Executive: it approved its plan at the beginning of summer and has now retouched it before the new outbreaks that have emerged: "It probably could have done it much earlier. Other autonomous communities governed by the PP had it ready in July or early August, "he said. And he has proclaimed that "Spain is ready to return to schools."

The same minister who has waited until the end of August to publish

He has also pulled the ears of the Community of Madrid, which he has reproached for the delay in approving his return to school protocol, despite the fact that his plan was approved

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