From noon on Monday much of Spain and Portugal lives without light in a. Without electricity or the Internet, incommunicado, some educational centers have continued with the school day, while others have closed. Many parents have moved to schools to pick up their children before the time of departure in the face of uncertainty caused by the supply of the supply, others have not succeeded. The management of the situation has varied depending on autonomies
The Andalusian Ministry of Educational Development has decided to suspend the face -to -face school in the educational centers of the community planned for the afternoon. This has been communicated by the government of Juan Manuel Moreno to the management teams and the families. Teachers attend students until they can be collected by legal tutors or school transport, given traffic problems. Meanwhile, school canteens have served menus, but improvised, as confirmed to this newspaper the presidents of the main Federations of Andalusian AMPAS Ceapa and Coampa.
The activity in the morning has remained because there are families who have not been able to move to collect students. Not having a way to heat the food, cold dishes have been served. This is the case of CEIP Practices, in Seville, where students have eaten salad and yogurt, explains Marina Jiménez, president of Coampa, the Andalusian Confederation of Associations of Mothers and Parents of the Students for Public Education. All Andalusian public universities, meanwhile, have decided to suspend their activity and all the events planned during the afternoon as a result of the blackout.
The University of Almeria, however, has resisted the blackout thanks to the generation of solar energy. There, the effects of the blackout have only lasted 10 seconds. It is the time it has taken to activate the emergency supply, which works thanks to the generation of solar energy in its buildings and parking and autonomous generation devices.
Castilla-La Mancha has also closed schools and universities in the afternoon, making the same decision as Cantabria, among others. In the Community of Madrid reigns absolute bewilderment. Unlike the other regions, no directive has been given on schools although parents have been recommended before for children or wait at the normal departure time. This newspaper has tried without success to contact spokesmen of the Ministry, the Ministry and of the unions to try to find out if the classes have been suspended or if they have continued in the afternoon.
The situation is more worrying in the case of children who go en route, an important number in a community like Madrid. In one of these schools, the Angels of Getafe, with 1,200 children most of them with route, the buses were at 16.00 ready to leave on the esplanade of the school, according to sources from the center, which has not been able to spread any statement to the parents because there is no internet or light. More than a hundred parents crowded at the doors at 4:00 p.m. trying to pick up their children before.
until families can pick up minor students. The counselor has launched a speech asking for peace of citizens and has dedicated a message to the families of minor students: “In schools, boys and girls can be in their classrooms until parents, mothers, grandparents or grandmothers can go to pick them up.
Without serious incidents in the schools of the Basque Country
Most schools in the Basque Country have chosen to keep students in the classroom until the service has been restored. A professor from an educational center in San Sebastián says they have not been able to use computers, so it has been decided to “teach master classes with books.” In those municipalities where the energy cut has extended for a longer time, they have been forced to end the classes.
The dining service has been carried out with plastic dishes and cutlery because appliances have stopped working. The Department of Education has not facilitated any detail of what the real incidence in schools during the critical moment of the electricity cut has been. In the University of the Basque Country (UPV) classes have been suspended, although the institution reports that “it will not have academic consequences.”
The University of La Rioja (UR) has also reported the suspension of teaching activity and, in addition, has preventively evacuated buildings due to the lack of electricity.
In Navarra, there have been hardly any incidents in schools, beyond having had to serve a cold dish in the dining room. From the Public University they assure this newspaper that “most classes at the Public University of Navarra have been able to develop normally throughout the day, except some kind of computer science.”
With information from: Alfonso Congostrina, Sebastián Marín, Mikel Ormazabal, Eva Saiz, Victoria Torres y Amaia Otazu.
