The Public Ministry of the State of Rio de Janeiro (MP-RJ) asked justice, this Wednesday (23), that the Petrópolis City Hall vacate the municipal schools used as shelters in the municipality so that all students return to classrooms. .
According to the city hall, this Wednesday, students from 56 schools and 36 early childhood education centers returned to classrooms, following the sanitary protocols against Covid-19.
Since the February 15th tragedy, 13 educational institutions in the municipality have sheltered hundreds of residents who lost their homes because of the storms.
In the request, the MP also requests that the Municipal Secretary of Education present, within 48 hours, an emergency plan to replace school activities that have ceased to be applied since the beginning of the school year. The MP fears that the occupation of schools by homeless people will cause irreversible damage to education and that students will not reach the goal set by basic education, of 200 school days.
“If we make a calculation based on today’s date, March 23, 2022, with classes ending on December 20, 2022, we will see that this number can no longer be reached, as we only have 189 working days left,” he says. an excerpt from the document, also adding that the city hall must also provide students, free of charge, with new school uniforms, given that the vast majority lost their belongings in the tragedy, in addition to school kits, with backpack, pencil, pen, eraser , notebooks and books.
The document also highlights that the schools do not have an adequate structure to accommodate the homeless and determines for the city hall a period of 15 days for the schools to be vacated by the homeless, under the daily penalty of R$ 10 thousand for the municipality.
wanted by CNN, the city government informed that it is temporarily relocating students from schools occupied by homeless people to other units. Regarding the MP’s determination to give a new destination to people who lost their homes, the prefecture has not yet informed what it intends to do.
victims of the rains
The city records 241 deaths, as a result of the rains of the last two storms. The last victim who was missing as a result of the rains on Sunday (20) was found dead this Wednesday. Three people, victims of the February 15 tragedy, are still missing.
Source: CNN Brasil
