Students from different educational levels in Cuba returned to classes today

ARTEMISA, Cuba, Nov 8 (ACN) Students from the sixth grade of primary school, and seventh, eighth and ninth grades of junior high school, including those in special education, as well as those in tenth and eleventh grades, and the first and second years of professional technical education and pedagogical training, returned to classes today in that western province to conclude the 2020-2021 school year.

Caridad Cruz Avila, provincial director of education, explained to the Cuban News Agency that Monday more than 15,000 students of those courses began to receive on-site classes in the educational institutions of each municipality.

To advance with the systematization of contents and the learning of new ones, in order to complete the school year started last March and as continuity to the television classes, Avila said.

At the same time, the university of this western region resumed its teaching activities this Monday, after months of acting as an isolation center for patients suspected or positive of suffering from COVID-19, ensuring the optimal preparation of its students and complying with the oriented sanitary protocols.

Carlos Eduardo Suarez Ponciano, rector of the entity, explained at the act held at the Faculty of Social and Humanistic Sciences that it will be vital at this stage to offer all the tools to the 367 first-year students of the daytime course, who will resume the 2021 academic period in the semi-attendance modality, as well as to the students who are preparing for the end-of-studies exercises, to be held in December.

In the case of the more than 600 students of the rest of the academic years, he said, they will continue their preparation to successfully complete the current school year in March 2022 and start the next one in April if the current epidemiological situation in the province is maintained.

In another western province, Matanzas, around 8,000 students between the sixth and eleventh grades resumed classes today in the municipality of Cardenas, one of the most affected by the latest outbreak of COVID-19, where the schools were conditioned to comply with biosecurity measures.

Marleydis Vera Ramos, municipal director of Education in this locality, told the Cuban News Agency that the joy of students, teachers and relatives for the return to the classrooms is evident, after the incorporation of a first group since last October.

According to Vera Ramos, special attention is given to offer psychological and educational support to more than 2,000 students who suffered from the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, especially those who lost a family member.

The return to the classroom is favored by the progress of the anti-COVID-19 vaccination process in Cuba, where 63.9 % of the population has already completed its vaccination scheme.