Some 300 students from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires (CNBA) continue to take over the educational center in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Monserrat, demanding the displacement of a teacher denounced for “looking at child pornography” and threatening the student, and a non-teacher convicted of sexual abuse. , according to what the president of the Student Center, Victoria Liascovich, said this morning.
In principle, the taking will continue while waiting for a meeting that they will have at 1:00 p.m. with the school authorities.
“We are not going to give in until there is a real dialogue and they are immediately removed from contact with students”Liascovich told Télam, adding that they want “things to be done well and a summary is opened.”
The denounced professor, according to what Liascovich told Télam, “threatened whoever denounced him by locking him up in the vice-rectory and threatening to knock out all his teeth.”
“What we ask is the displacement of these two people from the student contact and we also ask for mandatory training for all teaching staff”Victoria Liascovich, student leader
Another of the student claims is related to the request for displacement of a member of the non-teaching staff who works in the sports field of the College, located on the Costanera Sur, who “is sentenced to three years in prison for sexually abusing a minor cohabiting with him”.
In a meeting with the school authorities that took place this Wednesday, the students reported their claims, which were spread on social networks.
“What we ask is the displacement of these two people from the student contact and we also ask for mandatory training for all teaching staff, non-teaching staff and authorities of the Buenos Aires National College in Comprehensive Sexual Education (ESI),” said the student leader.
Also, a dialogue table was established for this Thursday at 1:00 p.m. between the members of the board of directors “to continue discussing the best solutions to our demands,” they pointed out from the Student Center.
The CNBA authorities They confirmed the taking of the school on Wednesday night and in a statement they described the situation as “totally surprising and unfounded for the entire educational community.”
SCHOOL TAKEN
Yesterday at 10 pm, the CENBA took over the school. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/QTVZJpBMOw— CENBA (@PrensaCENBA) June 23, 2022
They said that as a result of the takeover, “decided in student assemblies held in the three shifts,” “academic, administrative, and extracurricular activities will be suspended until the legal authorities of the establishment regain full control and domain of the entire building.”
“Regarding the situation of the aforementioned teacher (whom they did not identify), we clarify that he is not in front of the students, nor does he have any restrictions to fulfill his functions,” said the statement signed by the rector Valeria Bergman.
The letter ensures that The denounced professor, “has presented on April 5 of the current year the conditional resignation of all his positions as stated in the CNBA Rector’s Resolution No. 195/2022, pending the retirement benefit.”
Regarding this, the president of the Center, Liascovich, indicated that the man “although he does not teach, he is still the general coordinator of the Department of Physical Education. He does not have a license from his position of power and politics, and he hangs around the sports field.”
Regarding the information provided by the Student Center on non-teaching staff, the authorities informed: “we have initiated a summary information process and requested the UBA authorities the provisional transfer of the agent until the situation is clarified.”
