A heat wave has been unleashed in much of the country, affecting the classes of preschool students, primary and secondary. To protect the well-being of students, the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) confirm changes in school activities for the remainder of the month of April. Among these modifications is the implementation of a new schedule for get in to schools at the basic level.
The National Meteorological Service (SMN) confirm in his forecast for the third week of Aprilthat the states most affected by the new heat wave, with temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius are: Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Yucatán. While in other states such as Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Mexico City, Chihuahua, Durango, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Puebla, Querétaro, Sonora and Zacatecas; Maximum temperatures of between 30 and 40 °C are expected.
The intense heat felt in much of the country puts the health of preschool students at risk, primary and secondarythat is why the SEP confirms a new schedule for get in at classes in person, which will be in force in some municipalities of the Tierra Caliente Region in Guerrero, starting Monday, March 15 April and until it is safe to attend campuses due to the high temperatures of the season.
What is the new schedule to enter SEP classes due to heat wave in April?
The Secretary of Education Guerrero (SEG) changed the time for get in and leaving schools in some municipalities of the Tierra Caliente Region, with the aim of avoiding cases of dehydration due to wave of heat. The SEP state confirm that for the second consecutive year, preschool schools, primary and secondary of the municipalities of Ciudad Altamirano, Coyuca de Catalán, Pungarabato and Tlapehuala, will have a new schedule to attend the classes in person from 15 April.
The owner of the SEP in Guerrero, Marcial Rodríguez Saldaña, confirm that these measures are taken due to high temperatures, which raised the record to 39 degrees Celsius earlier this week. He new schedule for get in to schools in primary and secondary, during the morning shift, will be at 6:45 a.m.; while the departure is brought forward to 12:00, instead of 12:30.
It is important to point out that these schedules They will also be applied in schools that have air conditioning to prevent a short circuit.
Another state where SEP implements a new schedule between classes It's Michoacán. The Ministry of Health (SS) asked the educational organization to suspend activities between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. for the remainder of the month of Aprilwhen the impact of the heat wave is greater and solar radiation is more intense, leaving school students exposed primary and secondary to suffer from health conditions. While in CDMX, where the record for the highest temperature recorded in more than three decades was broken, no changes have been announced for get in or leave basic education schools.