The proposal states that at that time classes are provided by substitute or unemployed teachers.

It is about giving the opportunity to update those young people who need to deepen the contents and the subjects, “but it is not only a help with the curriculum, also psychological and conciliation, there are people who live a very harsh situation and must help them”, they have warned in a letter sent to the Spanish Minister of Education and to autonomic representatives, Isabel Celaá. The letter, an initiative of Save The Children, has been presented by more than forty associations and experts in the world of education, including associations of families, university professors and politicians who have led the Department of Education.

In Great Britain too, the British Youth Ombudsman has called for educational centres to be opened at some point during the summer holidays, especially with regard to the most vulnerable pupils. In short, the educational community perceives that the gap between students increases due to the lack of technological resources and home help of adults.

How to evaluate and prepare the next course

The letter also contains four other requests to address the gap: to adapt the evaluation to reduce the number of students who have to repeat the course (“should be an exception that a student repeats”); to adapt the curriculum of the next course “urgently” to speed up the contents and pay more attention to the needs of each student; to strengthen support in school and extra-school hours in the next course; and to guarantee technological resources to the students.

This Wednesday, Isabel Celaá and representatives of the autonomous communities meet to agree to the closing of this course. Some of the issues that will be on the table will be whether they will return to the schools, whether evaluations will be carried out or whether all students will pass the course automatically.