Lunch and school snacks, again at the center of controversy. (photo: TODAY)
In the educational community, in the political sphere and among education experts, there is rejection of the plan to eliminate school meals in educational institutions, as proposed by the presidentialist of the coalition, Efraín Alegre.
“Childhood without hunger” is called the electoral proposal of Efraín Alegrewho proposes to use the same funds destined for school feeding, to make a direct transfer of G. 200,000 per month to some 400,000 families.
However, far from achieving the expected result, this approach did not generate support from the different fronts.
Although the student sector has not yet taken an official position on the subject, consulted by Hoy Digital, the spokeswoman for the National Union of Student Centers (Unepy), Mercedes Montiel, made it clear that it is very It is important that school meals continue to be offered in schools and colleges, in order to guarantee that students receive the corresponding food.
For her part, the Deputy Kattya González, who has led the Parliamentary Front for Children for four years, considered that Alegre’s proposal makes no social or economic sense. “In this commission we summon different experts in infancy and childhood, with a focus on school food and nutrition, in these four years, no expert has proposed the solution proposed by the plate ”, He commented at 1020 AM.
The legislator recalled that the school lunch program aims to improve nutritional conditions, implement food education and encourage the permanence of students within educational institutions.
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On that point, the Dr. Francisco Giménez, specialist in education, warned that eliminating this food in institutions could be reason for exclusion of the child from the educational system. “For many families, and this is a Latin American reality, school meals represent one of the most important foods they consume during the day. Many families send their children to school so that they can receive the most important meal of the day. and in a second instance there is the subject of learning”, he explained.
agreed Dr. Sofia ScheidMaster in Educational Management, that the delivery of school lunch resources directly to families, as proposed by Efraín Alegre, would have negative consequences such as less inclusion or school dropout.
“We have made progress in Paraguay with a lot of effort in terms of snacks.a, which for me is little, that’s why I always talk about the needs to massify school lunch. It is proven in the world that a hungry child cannot learnThat is why it is so miserable that the one who steals the children’s food has to be imprisoned and not to change a tool that with a lot of effort and, still unfinished because it does not reach the whole country, destroy it“, he expressed in an interview with Gen/Nación Media.
In turn, the former minister of the Social Action Secretariat, Hector Cardenas, He said that Efraín’s proposal is totally unfeasible from the financial, social and management analysis, for which reason He remarked that he has neither head nor tail.
“Why would a family with one child receive the sum of G. 200,000, while another with 5 or 6 children will also only receive that amount? There is no clarity, you have to be careful, you must be responsible, It is understood that we are in a political moment, but it ends up being one more nonsense as were their proposals to reduce the cost of electricity, or decriminalize the invasions”, said the former Secretary of State to the GEN channel.
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