An indefinite pause

Abstract

This last year of pandemic has brought a great deal of changes to our lives. Schools, as an essential part of society, have not been able to stay out of it. School administrations have changed our day-to-day tasks, focusing on organizing the centers in order to make them as safe as possible and also on managing all the incessant and unexpected consequences of the pandemic.

The first months of confinement blurred schools despite the attempts to maintain a certain order of work and support to students. Although ratings have been positive, it was proved that early childhood and primary education should be face-to-face and close.

School administrations have accompanied very hard social processes during this time: ranging from the collaboration in tasks related to ensure basic needs such as food or to provide the most vulnerable families and children with the basic materials and devices needed , to the protection of children so that they are not deprived of basic rights such as education.

It is very difficult to think about the future after the recent experience that has marked a life designed in the short term., Despite we are decently sustaining our projects, schools urgently need to return to a normalcy that allows us to continue placing children and pedagogy at the center of education and reflections and, in addition, to move forward in the many exciting educational projects reviewed in the recent years.