The total suspension of classes in private and public schools should take place on Monday (23rd).
The government of São Paulo and together with the City Hall of the capital made a statement this Friday (13). A measure of gradual suspension of classes will be carried out in state and municipal schools from Monday (16).
“We will not be interrupting classes anyway. You have to have a plan with the families. It's no use stopping classes and the children staying with their grandfather and grandmother, who are the people we have to worry about the most”, said Rossieli Soares, the state's Secretary of Education.
“Starting next Monday, any student who can not attend school, will not attend, as long as the solution is not to leave the students with their grandparents”, said Bruno Caetano, Municipal Secretary of Education.
According to the secretary and governor João Doria, next week schools will be open for prevention guidelines. For both, families need time to organize.
“We are giving families more than 10 days to organize”, emphasizes Rossieli.
“We are programming distance activities with data sponsorship: students will enter at a given time so that students can access the application for free even if they do not have their own internet”, he explains.
Doria and Caetano recommended and asked the families to update their address and telephone information, so that the instructions reach more people with greater ease and accuracy. The state education network brings together 5,100 schools and serves 3.5 million students.
In the state, around 2.3 million students are currently enrolled in private schools and more than 600,000 teachers.
The city of São Paulo has 4,500 private schools and the state of São Paulo has 10,000 schools.
Officially, the state has 56 confirmed cases of coronavirus to date (Friday the 13th).
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