The artificial struggle to return or not to face-to-face classes.

During all this time of pandemic, a malicious artificial discussion has been generated, in which teachers are put in a false position of not wanting to return to classes. Teachers have expressed at all times their desire and willingness to attend to their students in schools in person, because it has been shown that nothing replaces the classroom, something different is to have had a position of denunciation of the precarious infrastructure conditions of educational establishments that was exposed after this pandemic, as part of the gap that exists in the attention of students according to the place where they live, the means and the type of school where they study.
Not wanting to return to school, has been an insane caricature that has served the authority to face this health crisis hiding as always the precarious reality of the schools and lyceums of the country, those in which children and young people from popular sectors and of greater vulnerability are served.
So both then and now, the question of whether or not teachers want to return to their schools is a tricky and crude excuse that is handled communicationally to divert the underlying issues.
What should be asked is whether the authority has overcome the pandemic and the risks of this disease, if it has improved the infrastructure of its schools and consequently now gives them exactly the same capacity or prevention measures, the number of students per room, and ultimately if students continue to be infected in a mild or more serious way, because in the end the equation and interest that prevails is the care and development of the economy and not the lives of people.
Sincerely assuming this decision and taking responsibility, without distorting or constructing false realities or using the media to disseminate them, is the true moral imperative that the government, the ministry of health and in practice the mayors responsible for what happens in each of their territories have.

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