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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Saturday that ESO and Baccalaureate students will begin to be vaccinated two weeks before the course begins. He has done it in the

Palacio de la Moncloa

, accompanied by the Ministers of Education and Health, Isabel Celaá and Carolina Darias, during the institutional tribute they have paid to the educational community for their commitment during this school year.

The effort made in recent months by teachers, principals, students and parents has made Spain one of the

OECD countries

that has lost the least face-to-face classes due to Covid-19.

Despite the worst prognoses, the responsibility of the educational community and the effectiveness of the measures adopted (especially open windows, masks and distances) have allowed the Spanish educational system to have managed to keep

99%

of its classrooms open .

Countries like

Germany

,

UK

or

Belgium

they had to close the schools, but here the school has resisted.

For this reason, the Government has wanted to pay tribute this Saturday to all those who have collaborated to keep the virus at bay in the classrooms.

Sánchez has taken his chest out of these achievements and has launched a very optimistic message, along the lines of recent days, that counteracts the effect of the pardons for politicians imprisoned for the illegal referendum on October 1. "There is joy of living, it shows, because we are launching into vaccination, because we are going record after record in the doses administered, because we are recovering employment and more employment. Spain is launched and has put the direct towards a recovery," he celebrated , remembering that from next Saturday the mask will be dispensed with in open spaces.

Along these lines, he recalled that only three educational centers of the more than

29,000

in Spain are closed, which barely represents

0.01%

of the total. "Spain has been one of the few countries in the world that has kept the centers open and it is essential that you are aware of the work you have done in your classrooms and at home in the face of the greatest calamity in a century, the system's response has been of honors ".

He has also taken the opportunity to boast of an "unprecedented mobilization of financial resources" for the reinforcement of templates, digital devices or scholarships, to defend the Lomloe and the FP Law, which, he has assured, will "place Spain in the educational vanguard in the coming decades. " In full controversy over the prioritization of competences over specific content, he has said that "educating is much more than instructing", and that is why he has advocated for students who are also trained "in issues that have to do with respect for the environment, the fight against gender violence, equality between men and women or inclusive education ".

During the event, a choir of children from 5th and 6th grade of Primary (who sung in English) and a string quartet participated and the students

Vera Rodelgo,

from

the Sagrados Corazones school

, and

Carlos Iglesias

, from

the Francisco Tomás y Valiente institute

spoke.

, educational centers in Madrid, as well as

María Castro Sánchez

, director of

CEIP Santa Ana

in the Madrid town of Pedrezuela, and the representative of the families

Sandra Torres Mensat,

who works in the

Once

group

.

Celaá has valued that the Government "dared" to keep the schools open "because the benefits for the mental and physical health of the students outweighed the risks."

"We took a step forward, ventilating those who barely resisted the cold between hats and gloves and improvised classrooms in the manner of romantic poets. We are proud of the professionals, we have managed that the pandemic does not take away our future," he said.

He has also said that "the school is the memory box", in full controversy because it prepares a curriculum that wants what the students learn to be less rote.

The tribute includes an institutional declaration of the Ministries of Education, Health and Territorial Policy in which the "coordinated work" of the educational community is recognized to guarantee professionalism;

"Cooperation between institutions" to achieve "perfect governance" is valued;

Teachers are praised for making schools "safe spaces", and the commitment of families, especially students, to "accommodate different dynamics" of learning is praised.

Taking inspiration from the Gran Cruz de Ayuso

The tribute is very similar to the recognition that the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, made on March 31 to the children of the region, to whom she awarded the

Grand Cross of the Order of the Two of May

for how much they have worked during the pandemic. The educational community values ​​it very positively, but considers that this type of gestures "should have arrived earlier" and, above all, it stings "the absence of a true dialogue" on the part of the Government on issues such as the ratio or negotiation regulatory changes.

"Recognizing the work of the educational community in these times of pandemic is important. But we also believe that this recognition must be accompanied with facts: maintenance of Covid reinforcements, reduction of ratios, reduction of the teaching load of teachers, less bureaucratic burden , reinforcement of the staff of Educational Support staff. And of course, greater investment in education. What the Government has to do is really negotiate a lot of issues that we have pending, "says

Maribel Loranca

, head of Education at

UGT

.

Teachers are very hurt with the Government because "it has lost the opportunity in

Lomloe

to lower the ratios permanently to guarantee a more personalized education, which is one of the objectives of the law itself," in the words of Loranca. "With the reinforcements that have been hired for this course, attendance at all levels and stages has not been guaranteed," he laments.

Nicolás Fernández Guisado

, president of the

Anpe

union

, also appreciates the recognition, but denounces that the

Professional Training Law was

known after being presented to the Council of Ministers "without having had the opportunity to have made any kind of proposal."

"Regarding the pending developments that affect VET technical teachers, we have not had any possibility of making any contribution either. We have learned unofficially about the creation of a new body of specialists and, regarding the professional situation of teachers, it has passed half a year and we don't have a single document on the table, "he lists.

"The best tribute is to make better laws and better agreements"

"It seems good to us that a tribute is made to the educational community", indicates, for his part,

Alfonso Aguiló

, president of the Spanish Confederation of Education Centers (

Cece

). "Another thing is what the Lomloe seems to us and the little interest shown by the Government in seeking consensus in the various regulations that are being developed. The best tribute would be to achieve between all of us to make better laws, better decrees and better agreements at the time of distributing European funds ".

Aguiló has been one of those absent from the tribute because the Government has only invited in person the members of the Permanent Commission of the State School Council, leaving out significant organizations.

Nor have they been able to attend

Catholic Schools

or

Concapa

because their representatives could not attend and Moncloa has not allowed one person to be exchanged for another, claiming that the invitation was personal and non-transferable.

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