En medio de un nuevo rebrote que amenaza con descalabrar el sistema de salud en todo el mundo, en medio de una guerra por las vacunas entre las burguesías de los países imperialistas, en medio además de los “retrasos” en la producción de vacunas por parte de las corporaciones farmacéuticas; se ha abierto en todo el mundo un debate, movilizaciones y medidas de fuerza por parte de la docencia frente a la vuelta a la presencialidad. 
Compartimos esta serie de notas sobre la situación de la docencia en Chicago (la huelga que impuso suspender la vuelta a las aulas y que planteó el lema de “Safe Return o No Return”), la declaración de la Federación Docente de Colombia, la posición de los y las docentes de Quebec, Toulouse e Irlanda. O la decisión de la Justicia de San Pablo de suspender la vuelta a las aulas. Una muestra apenas de una muy extendida deliberación y el inicio de una lucha de maestros y profesores del mundo en defensa de la educación y de la vida.

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"Protocolo de salud en las escuelas secundarias y preparatorias de Toulouse: "No es realista" según los sindicatos de profesores": https://lopinion.com/articles/actualite/8176_protocole-sanitaire-dans-le...
 

Teaching unions reject special needs education reopening plans: https://www.newstalk.com/news/teaching-unions-say-reopening-of-special-n...
 

Chicago returns to fully remote learning as union, district fail to reach deal: https://www.k12dive.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-members-vote-to-cont...
 

Justiça suspende retomada de aulas presenciais em escolas públicas e privadas no Estado de SP: https://educacao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,justica-suspende-retomada...
 

Conclusiones de la Junta Directiva Nacional de la Federación  de Trabajadores de la Educación  de Colombia:
"Ratificar que los maestros estamos listos para volvernos a encontrar en la escuela del retorno cuando estén listas las condiciones, se hayan destinados los recursos, adelantadas las inversiones, las adecuaciones, las adaptaciones, la salubridad, bioseguridad y no haya riesgo inminente; mientras tanto continuaremos bajo la modalidad de educación desde la casa y el gobierno debe garantizar los requerimientos de conectividad, equipos, guías, correos pedagógicos y dispositivos necesarios respetando la jornada laboral definida; de igual forma, el respaldo financiero para la organización académica, pedagógica y curricular para garantizar el derecho sagrado a la educación de los niños y jóvenes del país. Intensificar la campaña de NO a la alternancia en las actuales circunstancias y reivindicar la escuela de, en y para la vida."
 

Teachers union in Bellevue goes on strike to keep schools closed
Jan 21, 2021  
A divisive teachers strike has hit the Bellevue School District, upsetting parents, students, and the entire community. Bellevue’s school board had arranged for 700 young second-graders to return to their classrooms today, Thursday, January 21, with health safeguards in place.  This is the first day Bellevue schools would be open to second-graders since the governor’s order closed all schools last March 21.
Yet two days before Bellevue schools were due to open the local teachers’ union voted to strike, refusing to welcome the second-graders to their classrooms. Superintendent Ivan Duran responded to the crisis by quickly arranging for the children to have substitute teachers. Further, I learned this afternoon that he is taking the union to court. Superintendent Duran is clearly putting the learning, social and emotional needs of young children ahead of the political agenda of the local union.
Here is more detail. Since September the Bellevue School District, a district of 20,000 students, has provided in-person instruction to a limited 800 students. The district has had zero in-building COVID-19 transmissions.
In November Superintendent Duran reached an agreement with the union to safely phase in the return of the youngest students to their classrooms. Teachers promised to provide in-person instruction, beginning with kindergarteners and 1st graders, and followed on January 21st by second-graders. On Tuesday, however, unionized teachers broke the agreement and voted to strike. They also refuse to provide remote learning for all 20,000 students in the Bellevue School District for the remainder of this week, imposing more pain and confusion on families. 
The divisive events in Bellevue follow a familiar pattern of union conflict in Washington state. The unions are signaling their refusal to return to school this spring, even with health safety measures in place, and even if COVID transmission numbers are minimal.
For nearly a year we have been told “We’ll get through this together” and that we must put aside political divisiveness and promote unity in our communities.  Now we learn that Bellevue schools developed a safe-open plan for young children, only to have the union walk out on the agreement.
Most families in Washington have had enough of lock-downs, school closings, conflict and rancor, and look instead for unity, peace and collaboration.  The question now before the legislature is whether these teacher strikes and union delay tactics will spread, and keep Washington’s schools closed to students.