Buenos Aires teachers gathered in the Ademys union carried out a strike on Tuesday and called to a “shortage of students” in the face of “the crisis of school infrastructure in the middle of a heat wave” and in demand to the Government of Buenos Aires for “an immediate solution so that schools are safe places.”
In the afternoon they held an assembly to analyze the situation and the future measures to be adopted in this situation.
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Amanda Martín, Ademys’ assistant secretary, told Télam that “in winter the boys go to school with blankets and in summer they cannot resist the heat wave.”
“There is a crisis of school infrastructure that is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education (porteño) in charge of Soledad Acuña, who does not give any kind of response” to union demands, he said.
He added that in these circumstances “we had to call for a forceful measure, but many families also decided not to send their children to school and in others classes were suspended because they do not have services in fact.”
The leader also said that there were “many imbalances” of students in schools.
Federico Puy, Ademys’s press secretary, said for his part that the Buenos Aires government “only talks through the networks of its minister Acuña, who publishes against the measures” of the trade unions.
In this sense, he pointed out that Acuña “came out with a thread of tweets saying that we want to close the schools, but the person responsible is the Minister of Education herself, who all she did was send little bottles of water that either did not arrive or arrived at room temperature “.
“The conditions of the CABA schools, given the lack of educational budget, are deplorable and do not guarantee learning”they warned from Ademys in a statement in which they announced the strike “before the heat wave, the cut in infrastructure and the loss of salary.”
They also indicated that in the schools of the City of Buenos Aires there have been “lack of electricity, water, non-functioning or insufficient fans in classrooms of more than 30 students” in recent days, while they assured that “last week we had to assist dozens of students and workers” due to the high temperatures.
“Teachers and the educational community demand an immediate solution from the City government because the State is responsible,” they concluded.
Last Sundaythe teachers’ union demanded that the Buenos Aires Government suspend activities before “the announcement of temperatures that would be around 40 and 44 degrees Monday and Tuesday.”
In this sense, they reported on specific situations that they registered in school establishments where they did not have working fans, such as in School 2 of School District 21 and power outages in other institutions, such as Fernando Fader in the Flores neighborhood.
