Confusion in extra school days ordered by authorities 010422

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Published on Tuesday, January 4, 2022
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Even though the vast majority of students of public schools and high schools finished the school year in December, the Ministry of Public Education ordered that children must return to classes this week.

According to the ministry, approximately 1,200,000 students finished their lessons on Dec. 23, just to take a short holiday break, even though most of the students already received the report cards for finishing the 2021 school year.

However, on Monday students had to return to school, (to review the topics that had already been evaluated last year), for approximately three weeks, from January 3 to 22, this year.

The goal is for the public education system to meet the goal of 196 days of classes from the 2021 school year, authorities added.

Although the vast majority of students have already received the grades for last year's course, the ministry considers that returning to classes for these three extra weeks will be useful to review topics from the previous school year, promote interaction between the students and improve the emotional environment.

After this extra school period, students will take another short vacation break from Jan. 22 to Feb. 16.

These extra classes will not be evaluated and will also not be part of the evaluation of the 2022 school year, which is scheduled to begin on Feb. 17 and finish on Dec. 22.

In addition, the government announced in a brief press release that Paula Jensy Villalta-Olivares, Deputy Minister of Planning, submitted her resignation. She resigned because she received a better job offer, they said.

The Ministry of Public Education was a matter of controversy last year when the minister, Guiselle Cruz, resigned after thousands of school students were forced to complete a survey about sensitive family information.

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