Care and solidarity

Coming back at school is unpredictable although I wish it could be after Easter. Personally, I think that it is advisable to lower the press on which it is best to compensate for the lost weeks.  The list of proposals around education is long and lends itself to all kinds of adaptations and interpretations. In this case, it is not the time to tear into conventional routines in normal situations, because normality has been totally broken. So, I think that the best would be to attend kids with the most tenderness around two important aspects: the care and the solidarity.

The first is the welcome of the students, an act of celebration and approaches, through a collective "How are you?", and an individual "How are you", because the experiences will have been different. The conversation, the speaker’s corner, in a circle, opened, free and spontaneous, with a lot of listening. It will be the time to express and share fears, anxieties, moods, tensions, their happiest and hardest times and a lot of experiences. 

And, of course, it will be the time to ask questions, always depending on each educational stage, what has happened, why has it happened, if the measures taken have been most appropriate, what consequences has had, what are the basic needs and which are dispensable with respect to consumption, how the conflicts have been handled, what we have learnt in every way, and what future horizons open up . Particularly interesting, beyond the statistics of pain, will be to visualize the initiatives of solidarity and mutual help that have emerged during these days, focusing on those that can be promoted as a collective, in which the students can participate, activating collaboration and helping others.