According to the president of Sinprof, Guilherme Silva, the return of children from 1st to 5th grade, on February 10th, "will clash with the lack of biosecurity conditions in the overwhelming majority of schools in the country.
"The biosafety conditions are not created at country level in primary schools", stated this Wednesday in declarations to Lusa, pointing out that there are "one or another where there are conditions, where the municipal managers have a certain dynamic",
"There are also "stick to stick" schools, without desks, for the classes that resume and there are even some schools in the south of the country that told us that the students will have to study under trees to ensure distance," he stressed.
The union leader reported that primary and secondary schools in Changongo municipality, Cunene province, have biosecurity conditions, "but it results from a partnership between local authorities and private institutions.
"But in other places we've been to, like Kwanza Sul and Benguela, just to name a few," he stressed.
More than two million elementary school students are expected to return to classroom on February 10.
The Minister of Education, Luísa Grilo, considered, on Monday, that the resumption of the classroom activities in primary education, scheduled for February 10, is a "sign of confidence" in the school, making a positive balance of the first quarter of classroom classes.
According to the new presidential decree, which updates the preventive measures against the covid-19 pandemic during the public calamity situation, in force until February 9, primary school students (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades), whose classes have been suspended since March 2020 as a result of covid-19, will return to face-to-face school activities on February 10.
Classes from 6th to 13th grade, which resumed on 5 October 2020, as well as those in higher education, are still in progress, but there is still no date for restarting preschool activities.
For the president of Sinprof, "it is premature" to take stock of the first quarter of the 1st cycle of secondary education (6th to 13th grades) because "statistical data are still being evaluated".
"But we can say that the classes were held within the covid-19 conditionality," he noted.
Luísa Grilo made a positive balance of the first academic quarter in person: "We had no alarming cases, with the exception of Kwanza Sul where boarding students had to be confined, but everything is taken care so that the two remaining quarters run smoothly.
The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, provided extra money for the provincial governments to ensure the necessary biosecurity conditions in all the schools.
