Schools in Riohacha suspend classes due to lack of water and PAE - Other Cities - Colombia

A call to the mayor of Riohacha to improve the sanitary and infrastructure conditions of several institutions and educational centers in the District was made by the Association of Education Workers in La Guajira, Asodegua.

With this request they supported the decision to cease activities in several institutions and educational centers in the urban and rural areas of the District.

It is not fair that the Ministry of Education has been here for four years and today we see this panorama that is the product of negligence

Asodegua denounced that the breaches by the Mayor’s Office range from the implementation of the School Feeding Program (PAE) and school transportation, to the hiring of personnel for general services, the permanent water supply, the hiring of teachers and the repair of educational infrastructure.

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“It is not fair that the Ministry of Education has been here for four years and today we see this scenario that is the product of the negligence they had because they did not focus it,” says Sildana Deluque, president of Asodegua.

One of the institutions whose infrastructure is in poor condition is El Chonkay, at its headquarters No. 3 Remedios Morales de Guao. There one of the walls that supports the access gate is cracked and is at risk of falling.

Likewise, there are rooms that are caves for bats, pigeons and rats, taking advantage of the lack of some ceiling tiles. This has generated the spread of nauseating odors and other risks for the community.

Asodegua asked the Secretaries of Education and Health to close the affected classrooms, since the situation has caused several parents to withdraw their children.

Another of the affected sites in El Chonkay is No. 2, Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada. There the doors of the bathrooms are about to fall and the water service does not arrive.

Management’s response

Regarding these complaints, the Secretary of District Education, Jesús Herrera, confirmed that the general services contract has already been awarded and for next week the awarding of School Transportation and the PAE, respectively, will be carried out.

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Herrera assures that the delays are not due to poor planning, but to problems with the Mayor’s financial software, which did not allow the issuance of availability certificates.

To gain time, the PAE team of the Secretariat began the enlistment stage, carrying out verification activities of each one of the restaurants and school kitchens.

“To see what conditions they are in and what they need, in order to be able to provide the service in the shortest time possible,” said Herrera.

Regarding the lack of water, he pointed out that the problem is registered in eight educational institutions, for which a meeting was scheduled with the operating company of the aqueduct service, the competent areas and the members of the union to make decisions and resolve.

Finally, the official indicated that these days an agreement is being negotiated with Findeter for the improvement of school infrastructure, which should house some 60 educational venues of Riohacha.

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Sincelejo: they denounce that students should teach classes sitting on the ground - Other Cities - Colombia

Arturo Álvarez, president of the Association of Educators (Asodes), denounced that the students in Sincelejo, Sucre, and its rural areas receive classes on the ground, a situation to which he attributed the name “coronasillas”.

“After listening to the evaluations of parents, students and teachers of each of the Educational Institutions of Sincelejo, we denounced before public opinion the terrible conditions in which students receive classes: children lying on the floor due to lack of chairs” Professor Arturo Álvarez initially said.

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Teachers who complain because to date they have not received markers, others where there is no biosecurity protocol against covid-19. It’s an inconceivable situation…

Álvarez pointed out that there are institutions that continue to alternate due to the lack of chairs. According to him, “coronasillas 2022”, alluding to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, there are institutions with classrooms on the verge of collapsing the roof on students and teachers, classrooms with so many holes that children have to open umbrellas inside the classrooms.

“Teachers who complain because to date they have not received markers and there are others where there is no biosafety protocol against covid-19. It is an inconceivable situation after two years of non-face-to-face school activity. It is enough time for the municipal administration activated a plan to adapt and dignify education, but that was not the case,” said the union leader.

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In addition, Álvarez assured that “schools are dilapidated, without school meals, with non-existent school transportation. The municipal administration has become only speech, where officials do not assume their role as public administrators for the analysis and resolution of problems”, I note.

Finally, the union leader called on parents and students to hold a planto next February 24 in front of the municipal administration headquarters.

Bathrooms of some schools in Sincelejo

delivery of chairs

The chairs that will arrive from the Fund for the Promotion of Educational Infrastructure, also with quality resources, will invest 500 million pesos to strengthen the furniture…

The secretary of education of Sincelejo, Álvaro Hoyos, said that around 5,440 individual desks will reach 136 classrooms in 26 administrative offices that will respond to the needs of elementary and high school students, in addition to technical chairs and tables for the preschool stage.

The official indicated that the production of the stalls has been delayed and will arrive in Sincelejo in March. “I am asking the entire educational community in general of Sincelejo, in institutions where we have difficulties returning to classes due to lack of chairs, to have a little patience with us,” he said.

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Hoyos announced that he will meet with the rectors of all educational institutions to learn first-hand what the priority needs are to serve students, including the whole issue of biosafety.

For his part, the mayor of Sincelejo, Andrés Gómez Martínez, specified that investments will be made in infrastructure in different institutions, including those located in rural areas.

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Teachers from Tolima lifted the strike and returned to classes - Other Cities - Colombia

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The temporary cessation of classes for 3 days affected more than 145,000 students in the department.

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The 145,000 students from public institutions who spent three days without classes this week have already returned to classrooms in the municipalities of Tolima, after the lifting of the teachers’ strike.

Since February 7, some 8,000 educators and administrators stopped teaching face-to-face classes in 46 municipalities, with the exception of Ibagué, because they were not paid their January salaries and many of them held protest days in the Manuel Murillo Toro park, next to the headquarters. of the governorship.

William Polo, president of the Teachers’ Union of Tolima, Simatol, affirmed that “the educators resumed classes after the payment of January salaries. The teachers returned to their municipalities and restarted their work”, he said, adding that the payment of wages on time is a right of the workers.

Julián Gómez, Secretary of Education of Tolima, affirmed that the delays were due to problems in the virtual platform, which have already been solved.

“This time the settlement of the payroll was done manually, which caused us to fall behind in payments,” said Gómez.

He highlighted the officials of the Ministry of Education “who worked hard, manually, to make payments to teachers and administrators.”

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In Sucre, students walk kilometers to attend classes - Other Cities - Colombia

Students from the rural area of ​​the municipalities of Since and El Roble in Sucre, they have to walk several kilometers to reach the Educational Institutions and enter classes in person, now with the reactivation ordered by the Ministry of Education.

This has been denounced by parents, inhabitants of the village of Vélez, in the rural area of ​​Since, closer to the municipality of Roble, where their children attend classes.

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School transportation

We ask the mayor of El Roble to help us with transportation, because our children arrive tired, they no longer want to do their homework.

Lalys Muelas is the mother of one of those students, who starts her journey on foot every day very early in the company of other children to arrive at the Institution on time, since there is no school transport service that distributes the children from corregimientos. , sidewalks and farms.

“We ask the mayor of El Roble to help us with transportation, because our children arrive tired, they no longer want to do their homework because they arrive with a headache. With a car that makes the journey they are calmer, rested, with encouragement and willingness to comply with the Institution”, he says.

It indicates that the route is double, because there are several kilometers to go and the pampering on the way back.

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“Only that the one on the way back is heavier, because they do it under the inclement sun, which harms the children. The way things are going, they’ll have to withdraw from school. We do not believe that our children can put up with this hustle and bustle, because they will surely get sick, “they indicated.

They were waiting for a response from the directors of the Educational Institution they attend in El Roble and the mayors on duty, to find out if they can count on school transport.

The situation was already registered in the Sincelejito corregimiento, in the rural area of ​​Ayapel (Córdoba), where 300 children do not attend classes but because of the floods.
Mayor Isidro Vergara contracted the services of a river transport to solve this problem.

Schools are in poor condition and do not provide minimum guarantees to students

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in bad shape

Parents and teachers recently made the complaint about the poor state of educational institutions, in the rural area of ​​Sucre (Sucre), where the walls of the Nariño Corregimiento Educational Institution are about to collapse.

In the same way in the Manuela Beltrán Educational Institution, in the Sabanas de Beltrán district, in the jurisdiction of Los Palmitos, where thieves are taking the headquarters to pieces.

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Added to this is the lack of drinking water in different schools in the rural areas of Sincelejo, Toluviejo, San Onofre, Colosó and the indigenous areas of Sampués and San Antonio de Palmito.

Parents and teachers expect the solution to the requests they have made, so that children can access to receive classes in the midst of the highest possible quality.

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Barranquilla: return to face-to-face classes Monday, January 31 - Barranquilla - Colombia

Motivated to return, to recover learning and to reconnect with colleagues. This is how the educational community is in the return to face-to-face classes 2022, which will take place this Monday in Barranquilla.

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As reported by the District, during the same week that children and young people return to classrooms, expansion works will be delivered to three District Educational Institutions (IED).

Being able to reach all schools so that our students, teachers, teaching directors and principals have decent places

He added that this is part of the action plan of the district administration for the return to attendance, which in addition to educational infrastructure, includes programs and strategies educational quality.

“We are working to continue giving good news in terms of educational infrastructure and to be able to reach all schools so that our students, teachers, teaching directors and principals have decent places to teach and learn,” said Mayor Jaime Pumarejo.

Since 2021 they are in intervention 160 locations Of the 154 official schools (some schools have more than one campus), improvement works were also completed in 28 and work began in 14 schools, according to official figures.

“We are going to be here ready to work hand in hand, continue listening and continue collaborating so that this is a return to hope, to life, to postponed dreams,” said the district president.

With respect to vaccination against covid-19 in childhood, the city is in first place in the range of children between 3 and 11 years old, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

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The learning plan

Thinking about educational quality, the Secretary of Education, Bibiana Rincón, stressed that joint work has been carried out with FDI to achieve the learning recovery in this new stage.

In this sense, three fundamental pillars were designed: students with strengthened socio-emotional skills; teachers and schools with inclusive, innovative, student-centered pedagogical practices; and families and community with an active role in education.

The foregoing, according to the official report, will be developed through an action plan that also points to the gap closure, improving the learning of all children and adolescents so that they have the same opportunities to achieve complete educational trajectories.

Among the programs implemented by the District is ‘Soy Bilingüe’, which will reach 121 official schools in 2022, teaching English as a foreign language from transition, as an innovative method at the national level.

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Rural schools in Sucre, without guarantees to return to classes due to covid - Other Cities - Colombia

For the Association of Educators of Sucre -Ades-, the Educational Institutions of the 26 municipalities of Sucre They do not have biosafety guarantees for the health of teachers, students and managers in relation to covid-19.

This was expressed by the president of the association, Ubaldo Corrales, who, accompanied by other officials of the entity, toured the towns and were able to see first-hand what they are facing.

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“What we verified is that in the vast majority of Educational Institutions there is not even water, the sanitary units are not in the best conditions and in some establishments these modules, in relation to the number of students they have, are not enough to house them” , He said.

Biosecurity is not possible

Who is going to provide masks, liquid soap, disposable towels, everything that is needed to maintain minimal biosecurity

He pointed out that it is also necessary to draw the attention of local leaders, mayors and governors, because the Ministry of Health no longer talks about biosafety elements.

“Who is going to provide masks, liquid soap, disposable towels, everything that is needed to maintain biosecurity at a minimum,” he said.

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He specified that they are going to return to the Educational Institutions requesting the rectors and directors, that where the conditions are not met, they pronounce themselves in writing to the Secretary of Education, with a copy to the Attorney General’s Office, the Comptroller’s Office and control entities in general.

“We have to save responsibilities, because things could be presented to regret,” said the president of the Ades, “he said.

we have to go back

… they must review the context of the school and in that sense see if there are, or not, the conditions for the return when it is in a fourth peak of the pandemic

The president of the Ubaldo Corrales Teachers’ Association stated that beyond any situation the idea is to return to the classrooms in Educational Institutions.

“From educational establishments, direct councils, parent associations, teachers and directors themselves must review the context of the school and in that sense see if there are, or not, the conditions for the return when it is in a fourth peak of the pandemic,” he noted.

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He requested that anomalies be notified through a statement so that a commission from the Secretaries and the Ministry reviews the education entities and checks their status.

No water in Sucre schools

There are schools that have a tank for
sink of 20 liters of water, with 800 students

There must be sinks, liquid soap, minimal things and here most of the establishments in the rural areas of Sucre and Sincelejo do not have those conditions.

The president of the union expressed that it is not about making objections at this time, but about having the minimum conditions, because an Educational Institution without water cannot guarantee hand washing, disinfection of sanitary units, when the student will be 100 percent in face-to-face classes.

“There must be sinks, liquid soap, minimal things and here most of the establishments in the rural areas of Sucre and Sincelejo do not have those conditions. We are not asking to demolish and build a new school, we only ask for adaptations”, he pointed out.

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He explained that there are schools that have a sink tank of 20 liters of water, with 800 students.

“At what time will the curricular work be given? These are situations that occur at a time of a fourth peak of the covid-19 pandemic”, he indicated.
He asked parents to review the environment where their children are studying.

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