Colégio Pedro II, which is part of the federal education network in Rio de Janeiro, announced rules for the blended teaching regime starting on Monday (14). The classes will be divided into two groups and, each week, one of them must attend the activities, while the other will follow the classes remotely.
Students should observe preventive measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus that causes the covid-19 pandemic, among them, the use of masks. The decision was taken through Ordinance 225/2022, approved today (11) at an extraordinary meeting of the College’s Superior Council (Consup).
In December of last year, another ordinance had provided for the full resumption of face-to-face classes from February 7th, the date established for the return of students after the holidays.
However, five days earlier, the institution announced that, taking into account the new wave of contamination by the coronavirus driven by the spread of the Ômicron variant in the country, it would maintain the hybrid regime as it was in force. at the end of the 2021 school year: face-to-face classes were aimed at pedagogical complementation and monitoring and guidance of students, reserving the planning autonomy of the direction of each campus.
Altogether, around 13,000 students from kindergarten through high school and postgraduate studies study at Colégio Pedro II. There are 14 campuses in the state of Rio de Janeiro, located in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Niterói and Duque de Caxias, in addition to a Reference Center for Early Childhood Education, in Realengo, in the west of the capital.
Promise
Even with the promise that the scenario would be reassessed and new planning would be carried out during this first week of the 2022 school calendar, parents of students came to organize a protest on Monday (7) in front of five units. They asked for 100% face-to-face classes. But this is not a consensus position in the school community. Part of the parents and the students themselves defend the decision to keep classes partially remote.
According to the direction of the college, the new ordinance reiterates the new rules defined in Ordinance 2.389/2021, approved in December last year. It established three operational plans for the 2022 school year, to be activated according to the colors of the flags on the Covid-19 risk map of the state of Rio.
Plan A, full return, must take effect after 15 uninterrupted green flag days. Plan B, with blended activities, takes effect after a week with the yellow/orange flag. Already at the red flag, plan C, with fully remote classes, is implemented immediately.
Ordinance 225/2022 also points out the need for planning to find solutions in the face of Normative Instruction No. 90, of the Ministry of Economy, which establishes the removal of servers with comorbidities. There are 319 college workers who legally remain in remote work. A new meeting of the College’s Superior Council was scheduled for next Friday (18), when the situation will be evaluated again.
