translated from Spanish: Students at CDMX get ahead of class suspension

A group of teenagers scolds the floor with water, soap and stick mops. “It’s part of the clean-up that students do to prevent any contagion against coronavirus,” said one of the teachers of #50 High School in the mayor’s Office Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City.
In the adjacent classroom another group of students between the ages of 13 and 14 take classes in a classroom that looks just over half the empty table banks.
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“In this group, about 60% of the students were missing,” commented the teacher who leads the group. Both teachers spoke on condition of anonymity as they are not authorized to give interviews on pMI indications.
High school is not the same as other days, where the bustle is often constant. The hallways are silent and few students walk around to go to classes in their respective classrooms.
At the queen-day Queen Mary private school, located in the Quauhtémoc mayoralty, the halls and corridors also looked semi-empty, even though the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced last week that it will be until March 20 when the Easter school holidays were going ahead in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and will run until April 20.
On a normal day there is buzzing in classrooms and constant movement of students and teachers in the hallways, but this Tuesday was different.
“The influx is down by at least 30%,” said Karina Sotres, primary school technical coordinator, who explained that once children and young people stop attending classes, they will send the homework online.
As part of the emergency measures, students with flu or cough scans were not allowed in, but there were some cases that began to show symptoms within the school.
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“It’s all part of the pMI-marked prevention measures,” she said, while three children were playing in one of the school’s administrative offices waiting for their parents after they were detected with flu symptoms.
In different schools they have set up posters with information to prevent COVID 19
A few meters from there, on Manuel María Contreras Avenue, the Salvador Díaz Mirón library looked completely alone. Only the security guard, a maintenance employee and the manager were on the first floor of the place.
The same thing happened in the computer area of the library, located on the second floor of the property. Only one English teacher and three children took classes at one of the benches and two others read the day’s newspapers.
“In the mornings (when the visit was made) there are always people on the computers, but now there is no one,” said María de la Luz Jiménez, in charge of the library.
“I think people should think the place should be closed, but we’ll stay open until we get another order,” she said.
At The Anglo English school, located on Antonio Caso Avenue, Colonia San Rafael, there were classes, but the empty classrooms showed absenteeism.
Despite this, the school continued its regular work with the students who did attend. At the front desk, the operators responded to requests from callers to ask for their courses.
Semi-empty classrooms at the CDMX was one of the postcards on Tuesday
An employee of the educational institution said they are discussing the possibility of suspending classes in their 11 schools (8 of them in the CDMX) ahead of schedule, and as an alternative– advanced – they will offer virtual classes so that students do not miss sessions and continue the practice of the English language.
“There’s a lot of concern from students and teachers about everything that’s going on with coronavirus, but we’re looking for the best alternative for all of them,” he added.
At the private school Sara Alarcón, located in the Miguel Hidalgo delegation, there was little influx of students.
“Almost no children came,” said a school parent, who occasionally voluntarily supports the institution to stop trafficking and get children into school.
There were classrooms where it was only 2 or 3 students, so the teachers made a single group with who they went.
That’s what schools visited on Tuesday looked like. There were parents who, in fear of possible contagion, to their children preferred not to take them to the classroom.
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