Matanzas maintains the temporary cessation of teaching activities .

Faced with recent doubts and concerns expressed by students and relatives regarding the restart date of the school year, authorities of the educational sector in this western province point out that in Matanzas, as in the rest of the country’s territories, declared in the autochthonous transmission phase The temporary cessation of face-to-face teaching activities remains limited.

For this reason, the monitoring of the students to the teleclasses and the orientations to the teachers and professors through the new communication and information technologies will continue. The explanatory note from the Provincial Directorate of Education, issued from the proliferation of false news on social networks, specifies that the measure to paralyze the school year in the institutions of the sector was implemented in order to minimize the risk of transmission and contagion of the covid -19, an appropriate decision that as always requires the understanding and unconditional support of the Cuban family.

According to her, she made known to Radio 26, Bárbara Herrera Zulueta, institutional communicator of the organization in Matanzas, any information related to the restart of teaching activities in schools will be promptly informed to the population. She also highlights the note, that for any general doubt or specific concern about the different educational levels, you can write to the email directives@dpe.ma.rimed.cu and the following telephones are available:

  Early Childhood and Special   ……………….. 45 288972

Primary ………………..45 243969

Secundary  ………………. 45 287214

Pre/University………………  45 288956

Professional Technical Education …………. 45 244619

Youth and Adult Education ……… 45 243453

Likewise, the communicator of the Provincial Directorate of Education highlights that of the 67 Children’s Circles existing in the Matanzas territory, 37 maintain their operation to support working mothers who work in prioritized activities of the economy and services.

In the case of Primary Schools, 54 distributed by the various municipalities are open as semi-boarding schools, 16 educational institutions were enabled as isolation centers and around 91 teachers and 138 workers from the sector work as support personnel for the care of the patients .

The rest of the Matanzas educators are watching television teaching activities, carry out investigations, others are immersed in self-improvement and self-preparation actions and in tasks assigned by the municipal Defense Councils in each locality.

Tamara Caridad Mesa González

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