The collective “Vacancies for All in Public Schools” denounced this Thursday the mistreatment and shortage of personnel in the summer colonies for students of Buenos Aires public schools, where a criminal complaint was even made.
Every year, at the beginning of the summer, the collective receives “an increasing number of complaints due to disorganization, carelessness, and in some cases the mistreatment of children” within the framework of the Summer Schools plan.
The program, which began last Monday, is attended by more than 32,500 boys and girls and Its headquarters are the schools themselves as well as the City Park and the Indo-American Parkamong others.
“This year the complaints are very serious and include a criminal complaint,” they stated regarding the situation that took place in a school in the Villa Crespo neighborhood, during the first day of the program.
“We want to express our maximum repudiation and our state of alert for the situation in which the girls and boys find themselves in the neighborhoods run by the Ministry of Education of the City whose main managers are Horacio Rodríguez Larrera, Soledad Acuña and Fabián Capponi” Collective “Vacancies for All in Public Schools”
In that occasion An initial level girl was found by her mother, at dismissal time, in a room “without her underwear”.
According to the testimony of the woman, who asked that her identity not be cited to protect her daughter, He filed a complaint with the 15th police station after what happened at the school.
The authorities explained that “The boys couldn’t change in the bathroom because there was no room, so they changed in the living room” after doing an activity with water.
“What happened to my daughter was very serious. Boys and girls need to get dressed in a safe place and that did not happen,” said the woman in dialogue with Télam, noting that after that first day in which “it was all chaos, half of the enrollment in that kindergarten dropped.” .
From the Ministry of Education they argued that both personnel from the school portfolio, as well as from the area that coordinates Summer Schools as well as from the School Guidance Teams, were present “immediately” at the school.
“Along with the management of the school, meetings were held with the family to clarify that the situation was momentary and typical of the age of the boys”informed the spokesmen of the City Government.
Other reported irregularities is that “The groups have up to 60 girls and boys and are in charge of one person or hopefully two.” They also warned that “There are complaints of girls and boys who left without an adult having gone to pick them upr, they have found a child on the sidewalk, people go without authorization and allow them to remove any child”.
They also warned that “there are reports of girls and boys who managed to get out without an adult having gone to pick them up, they have found a child on the sidewalk, people go without authorization and allow them to pick up any child.”
“We want to express our maximum repudiation and our state of alert for the situation in which children find themselves in the neighborhoods run by the Ministry of Education of the City, whose main managers are Horacio Rodríguez Larrera, Soledad Acuña and Fabián Capponi,” the group reported. .
They also expressed the need to “create exclusive spaces for recreation and good use of free time in the summer months for the well-being, physical and mental health of children mainly.”
And also “because teaching can no longer continue to face in solitude the multiple social demands for the care and support of minors.”
