After the Minister of Education of the City of Buenos Aires, Soledad Acuña, announced on her social networks that an administrative summary was initiated against the school’s vice-chancellor Mariano AcostaJulio Pasquarelli, the educational community questioned this measure.
The first to speak out were the directives of the collegewho questioned “the political intentions of the education minister. Likewise, the authorities of the Mariano Acosta they sympathized with Pasquarelli and expressed their full support.
“We want to express our support for the school’s vice-chancellor, Julio Pasquarelli, who last Wednesday became aware of an administrative sanction through a mass media,” indicated the directives of the Mariano Acosta it’s a statement.
Pasquarelli will be investigated for giving a speech in the framework of the school takeover that took place a month and a half ago, in which, according to the minister, the vice-chancellor “indoctrinated the listeners of that speech with gestures that contributed to generating violence.”
In addition to the support of the school directors, the educational community also repudiated the fact and denounced that both students and teachers are victims of political persecution.
In this regard, Eduardo López, deputy secretary of the Union of Education Workers UTE-CTERA, pointed out: “Larreta wanted to close the teaching staff and could not. Now, he wants to sanction his teachers for defending the right of young people to be heard”.
Also, teachers from different educational establishments They expressed their rejection of the measure and assure that there is “harassment of the educational community.”
Legislators from the Front of All also demonstrated
Through a statement, legislators from the Frente de Todos (FdT) of CABA also spoke about the investigation against the vice-chancellor and expressed their solidarity with him: “Our solidarity with Julio Pasquarelli, vice-chancellor of Mariano Acosta, in the face of the attacks by Larreta and Acuna”.
And they add: “It is inadmissible that the highest political authorities of the City Government insist on pointing out and intimidating education workerswho in the exercise of their functions promote plural and democratic discussion spaces”.
