The Ministry is pending the presentation of a guide to address the mental health problems of students
The Ministry of Education offered psychological assistance yesterday to the school management so that the students and teachers of the center fit the event, which was directly witnessed by the schoolchildren who attended the class when the events occurred. “It will depend on what they demand, for now we are waiting, it will be decided what kind of care is given to them,” sources from the regional administration assured yesterday.
As explained by the director of the Monteagudo school, Guillermo Rodríguez Cid, the Ministry of Education has activated a protocol that suspends the minor’s attendance at the center for fifteen days. “Then we assume that she will join again,” he assured.
The head of Education, Mabel Campuzano, was interested yesterday in the incident and spoke with the director to show “her concern about the situation in the educational center.” Campuzano has pending the presentation of an orientation guide prepared with technicians from the Ministry of Health with guidelines so that teachers can address mental health problems that may arise in educational centers, and that, according to the directors of centers of Secondary on several occasions, they have been on the rise after the pandemic. “This is a guide, but it is a matter that falls to the Ministry of Health. Education can collaborate to the extent that the centers can detect the cases, but their attention is already the responsibility of health professionals,” sources from the Ministry insisted yesterday.
Campuzano insists that it is an issue “that concerns Health; we can collaborate in detecting cases”
In the wake of the pandemic
María Isabel Campuzano said on Tuesday, in response to questions from journalists, that her department is “in contact with the Ministry of Health to develop a guide focused on teachers to deal with these situations, and we are also seeing how to arbitrate the measures that can fall within our competences, because in reality that is a health problem that they have to face, and we collaborate to communicate the cases that we can detect in the classrooms». She did not specify when these resources will be launched, nor did she detail what they will consist of.
The Minister of Education did admit, however, that her department is aware of the problem: “In view of the increase that has been so significant as a result of the pandemic, we are going to arbitrate the solutions so that it is the least possible impact,” she said.