Students in Spain win a free pass
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No Spanish youngster will fail the school year over the coronavirus crisis, and only in 鈥渧ery exceptional鈥 circumstances will anyone have to repeat, the Education Minister Isabel Celaa said on Wednesday.
All educational establishments in Spain have been shuttered since mid-March when the government imposed a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the virus that has now killed more than 18,500 people throughout the country.
With similar lockdowns across the globe keeping an estimated 850 million young people out of school, it has created an 鈥渦nprecedented challenge鈥 for governments and educators, the UN has said, with authorities now mulling the fate of the interrupted school year.
Celaa promised no child would fail the year as a result of the crisis, and authorities would provide voluntary catch-up programs over the summer.
鈥淣o child will fail the school year because of COVID-19,鈥 she said, hailing the 鈥減atience and immense efforts鈥 being made by children, their families and teaching staff in the face of an 鈥渦nprecedented challenge.鈥
She said the school year would not run beyond June, without saying when schools might reopen.
鈥淩epeating the year will be a very exceptional measure which will have to be based on a solid and very well-argued case,鈥 Celaa said, adding students would study from home during the third and final term.
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