Call for class suspension and protect the right to education

He Collective Educational Pact and the Socio -educational forumcomposed of 26 civil society organizations, their worry before the recent ones paralyzes of Teaching In the provinces San Juan and Bahorucosituation that has affected more than a hundred schools.

The stops have been summoned by the sectional Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP) in those southern provinces to respond to the needs of schools and situations related to the appointment of person and transfers of others.

In a public document, the entities They recognized the Guild right to claim improvementsbut they warned that Class suspension directly affects studentsespecially to the most vulnerable contexts.

“We recognize the right to certain job claims, but we cannot accept that childhood and juDominican ventud are hostages of Conflicts They do not correspond to them, “they said.

Right to education

The entities alerted to be “normalizing the unacceptable“: Boys, girls and adolescents who lose weeks of classes Without real recovery guarantees, with long -term consequences.

They remembered that Dominican Constitution establishes, in its article 63, that the education It is a fundamental right and a Essential Public Serviceand quoted precedents of the Constitutional Court that grant primacy to that right over the strike in the public sector.

Called and proposals

In his statement, the COlective He made five specific requests To different authorities and sectors:

They call al Ministry of Education (MINERD) To publish the data Updated on loss of teaching hours and days, so that society clearly knows the magnitude of the damage.

They urged the Ombudsman to actively exercise their legal powers, ensuring that the fundamental right to the education.

Propose the creation of a “student guarantee clause”, which ensures the Effective recovery of classes suspended, emotional support and pedagogical reinforcement for affected students.

They invite families and school communities to join this cause, not to confront anyone, but to “defend together the right of our children to receive teaching without interruptions.”

The Educational Pact group raises the need to activate a “national educational risk alert” every time classes are paralyzed, as a symbolic and citizen instrument to make visible the consequences of these suspensions and mobilize society in defense of the right to learn.

“The education it just can’t be hostage of sectoral disputes. It is time to place in the center of the Public Agenda to whom they matter most: our students. Not one more day without classes! “concludes the document.