The official clarified that the current regulation “does not particularly mention heat, but refers to when the physical integrity (of the students) is affected”./ Photo: Archive
The Ministry of Education of the province of Santa Fe ruled out this Tuesday suspending classes in the district due to the heat wave that affects the central region of the country, but clarified that current regulations authorizes school principals to cease activities for exceptional reasons.
In this sense, the Secretary of Education of the province, Víctor Debloc, reported that the Ministry of Health He recommended to the Minister of Education, Adriana Cantero, “that Physical Education classes not be carried out, which generally take place outdoors and which are inconvenient due to the high temperatures.”
“There is an article of Decree 456 that empowers the director and the supervisor to approve a request to partially or totally suspend (classes) for a couple of hours, half a day or a whole day when there are exceptional situations,” Debloc said.
The statements to radio LT9 of Santa Fe, the official clarified that the norm “He does not particularly mention the heat, but refers to when the physical integrity (of the students) is affected.”
In this sense, he gave as an example a situation that occurred yesterday in schools in the cities of Santa Fe and Gálvez, where there were water pressure problems, for which “the Regional Delegation intervened and allowed the suspension of classes.”
Commitment: open schools
In addition, he explained that “for a general suspension (of classes)” the “approval or consent of the Ministry of Health” is expected, as happened in “previous years” when there were problems in some schools derived from the burning of pastures, which They generated a lot of smoke.
Debloc also clarified that “there are very committed directors” who want “children to be in school learning”, since there “They have the possibility of being in a good environment, with fresh water and with the dining room service.”
“The commitment is that the schools are open and give classes. But you always have to think about the health of the students,” the official concluded.
