In this hot season, there are 68 public basic education schools in La Laguna de Durango that decided to reduce school hours, from 8 to 11 in the morning because they do not have the necessary cooling devices and roofs or because they have problems supply and supply of drinking water. The Undersecretary of Education in the region, Fernando Ulises Adame de León, said that there are 12 other educational establishments that will finish the 2023-2024 school year in distance mode, because they acquired mini-splits with resources from the federal program La Escuela es Nuestra, but They had electrical overload problems and the air equipment broke down.
“They burned because the contractors did a very bad job, they put in air conditioning equipment without modifying the transformers, without modifying the cables. They are not ashamed, really, since they told the mothers that they did not have to ask anyone’s opinion because they were autonomous and that they were going to receive the resource from La Escuela es Nuestra, then they put us in a tremendous problem because we have many schools without classes, we have poorly done works and there is no supervision, there is no control, we do not know who is going to be responsible (for the damages),” he declared.
In the Lagunera Region of Durango there are 1,206 basic education educational institutions and there are 150,000 boys, girls and adolescents served by 14 teachers. The official added that to supply water in some schools, they have been relying on pipes sent to them by the water operating organizations of the municipalities of Gómez Palacio and Lerdo, that is, Sideapa and Sapal.
END OF COURSES
According to the school calendar of the state of Durango, the end of courses for the student community is marked next Tuesday, July 16, while from the 17th to the 19th of that same month, an Intensive Continuing Training Workshop for Teachers was scheduled. In this entity, there will be no classes next Monday, June 17, one day after Father’s Day (celebrated every third Sunday). There will also be no activity for students on Friday, June 28, since one more meeting of the School Technical Council (CTE) is being held.
Last May, the Department of Education of the State of Durango (SEED) ruled out the possibility of suspending in-person classes in public basic education schools due to high temperatures. The head of the agency, José Guillermo Adame Calderón, said that the 2023-2024 school year was passing without major difficulty and that they were seeking to comply with the 190 effective days of class.
“Obviously it is hot, at other times it is cold, at other times it is rainy and we cannot be suspending the educational service for these reasons, rather we have to adapt to them.”
On that occasion, he assured that the lagoon region is where there is the highest degree of temperatures, but that practically all educational institutions had air conditioning, drinking water and basic sanitation systems, this in order to guarantee well-being and health. of the students.
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2024-06-12 15:00:33