Several secondary schools in the city of Buenos Aires continued to be taken over this morning demanding food of nutritional quality, better building infrastructure and against labor practices in companies, while students from the Buenos Aires National School and the Carlos Pellegrini School joined the protest “in solidarity”.
After the government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta decided to send police officers to the homes of some of the students who participated in the seizures, the families began to organize themselves through different organizations and lawyers to respond to the warnings of criminal and misdemeanor complaints. .
Thursday night, IThe students of the National College of Buenos Aires, which depends on the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), voted to spend the night in the establishment as a measure of “solidarity”, after those from Carlos Pellegrini, the district’s other traditional college, decided to take over for the same reason.
“After massive assemblies, the National College of Buenos Aires is taken over for tonight in support and solidarity of the CABA schools, which suffer neglect and political persecution after the measures voted by the students,” said Victoria Liascovich, president of the Buenos Aires National Student Center (CENBA).
During the day on Thursday, the educational community of the Mariano Acosta and Federico García Lorca schools gave symbolic hugs to their respective establishments.
Other schools that joined the occupations and protests that began on Monday are the Escuela Normal Superior Lenguas Vivas Sofía Esther Broquen de Spangenberg -known as “Lengüitas”-, the Superior School Specialized in Ceramics No. 1, the Mariano Moreno school , the Rogelio Yrurtia Higher School of Artistic Education in Visual Arts, the Juan Pedro Esnaola School of Music, the Rodolfo Walsh, the Nicolás Avellaneda, the Liceo 5 Pascual Guaglianone, and the Osvaldo Pugliese.
In response to these student protest measures, Buenos Aires Minister of Education, Soledad Acuña, said on Thursday that the educational system “has to set limits” and considered that “no situation in a democracy justifies closing a school.”
The official added that the portfolio she leads is “applying the procedure” in force, which implies “that the school authorities have to have control not only of what happens at the patrimonial level, but also at the level of the safety of the children and alert families.
