At yesterday’s public hearing on special education, Senator María de Lourdes Santiago had a tense oral meeting with the Deputy Secretary of Special Education at the Ministry of Education (DE) Eliezer Ramos, who asked during his presentation to remove the mask .
The official asked for special permission before reading the presentation in question and complained that “talking too much with a mask sometimes makes things complicated”.
At Ramos’ request, the pro-independence legislator replied, “We need to prepare, after all we’re going to ask the boys and girls to wear the mask all day, so maybe we can do our best, Mr. Secretary.”
The awkward moment was captured in a video that has already circulated on social networks and sparked a lot of criticism against DE’s assistant secretary, and many applauded the PIP senator’s intervention.
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During his presentation, Ramos pointed out that student therapy services are compensated during the academic summer session and in August. He added that families can coordinate compensatory time with their respective therapists.
Not much more than in the public system 103,000 students are part of the training special education