The CIPF calls to mobilize alongside teachers Thursday to denounce the implementation of the last health protocol, and to demand more ways to enable schools to stay open in good conditions.
Once is not custom. The strike movement launched by the teachers’ unions for Thursday, January 13 received support beyond the sphere of education professionals. Monday, the CIPF, the first organization of parents of students, signed the call for strike and invited parents to mobilize Thursday to protest the management, by the government, of the health crisis at school. “To tell the Minister of National Education and the government that it sufficnds”, the CIPF calls families to “do not send the children” in the Thursday, and to join the events.
“As teachers, parents can no longer suffer protocols that change and who are always very heavy for students and educational teams”, Writes the CIPF in its statement . The protocol relaxes announced on Monday, January 10 by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, have changed nothing to the “rare” position, according to the spokesman for the federation of representatives of parents. “The question is not settled” with the possibility of using three autototes, explains Rodrigo Arenas. The difficulties in obtaining pharmacies are feared to parents from persistent barriers to comply with the protocol, and the constraint of nasopharyngeal tests, particularly painful for the youngest, “continues to weigh on children.” The solution, according to the federation, remains to “detect children in schools with salivary tests”.
But anger that motivates the call for mobilization exceeds the only health protocol. Parents join the Minister of National Education on the need to keep schools open, in the interests of students. “But open the doors of the school is not enough,” says Rodrigo Arenas, denouncing the current situation in which classes are half empty and children, regularly absent, suffer in their learning.
a Strike hard to discredit
The challenge for CIPF, as for teachers, is the means given to the school to welcome students and ensure its teaching mission in good conditions despite the health crisis. One “whatever it costs” declined to the school world to get out of the implicit alternative of the sanitary protocol: test or close. For Rodrigo Arenas, this involves a better security of classes to avoid contaminations, ways to ensure the replacement of all absent teachers and “not just to daycare”, or solutions for the distance education of the students obliged to Stay at home while their teacher is in class.
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