There will be a strike of secondary school teachers throughout the country this Thursday

First, it had been the Montevideo Secondary School Teachers Union (ADES) who had decided to stop on Thursday in the capital, but then the call was extended to the entire country by Fenapes, a federation that is also made up of Montevideo teachers, reported La daily.

The union issued a statement in which it expressed its most “strong repudiation” of the “excessive abuse” of the General Directorate of Secondary.

“In an action typical of dark times, he instructs summary proceedings and dismisses the director of the IAVA for ‘insubordination’, when his actions focused on addressing the concerns and freedom of expression of students,” they stated in the letter.

They also branded the High School resolution as “repressive”, “anti-union” and “undemocratic”, also based on the “disastrous” Education Law approved by Juan María Bordaberry.

“These norms of the fascist dictatorship that the current administration embraces are happily repealed by subsequent democratic norms. Their application in the current context expresses the notorious anti-democratic and repressive spirit of those who promote them,” Fenapes added in his statement.

Summon high school authorities

The federation announces that there will be mobilizations at the high school doors on Thursday, as well as in the public spaces of “each community.”

Several leaders of the Broad Front spoke out against the Secondary School’s decision to prosecute and remove Leonardo Ruidiaz, the director of the IAVA.

Secondary’s explanation is that the director could have committed a “serious offense”, since he refused to mediate with the students union members to move to another room to have their union meetings. The place they were using was padlocked and chained, locked.

As stated to The Observer the general director of Secondary, Jenifer Cherro, the students were given the opportunity to move to another room in the building, but they refused, claiming that they would lose “visibility”.

The senator of the Broad Front, Liliam Kechichian, announced on her Twitter account that this Thursday will request in the Senate that the Secondary authorities be summoned for give explanations“before what he considered a “true outrage”