Come from ADES installation of dining room classrooms with very good eyes
The current education authorities have arranged to provide food service in almost 60 Public High Schools throughout the country.
In the department of Cerro Largo, as announced in the middle of last year during his visit to the department by the General Director of Secondary School, a dining room will be installed in Liceo No. 4 in the city of Melo.
“We are going to start the year according to what was scheduled. The hours have been allocated for the most part, even though we have elections this week” said the President of ADES Cerro Largo Branch.
“We see the issue of dining classrooms from a good perspective because it is a policy aimed, fundamentally, at ensuring the right to food, which will favor learning” considered the Professor Luis Fratti.
“Taking into account that the National Institute of Statistics has disclosed that child and adolescent poverty is very worrying in Uruguay, it grew a lot in the previous period” he assured. “We are at 32% in children and at the level of adolescents between 13 and 17 years old, 27% are in the poverty range” revealed. “Evidently, a country that does not take care of its children and its young people will mortgage its chances in the future. That is why we view this issue of dining room classrooms very favorably, especially taking into account that, in the previous period, during the Administration of the Multicolor Coalition, there was strong criticism for the spending reduction policy that mainly attacked school canteens.” held.
He said that at the secondary education level, the amounts allocated for food were reduced, which meant that, in many cases, the union – ADES ATES Cerro Largo – had to contribute with baskets in practically all high schools in the department. “We saw that poverty was increasing, especially during the pandemic” he pointed out.
DINING CLASSROOM IN LYCEUM 4
“Liceo No. 4 began receiving yesterday –for Tuesday the 24th- “All the necessary implements to set up a classroom that, from what we have been able to know, would serve about 140 students.” Fratti advanced.
He confirmed that, nationwide, some 56 dining room classrooms will be set up to cover the nutritional needs of around 40,000 students. “The projections for the five-year period are to establish the system in all high schools. By 2029, it is expected that this project will also cover technical schools” advertisement.
ENSURE QUALITY LEARNING
“This is a radical proposal that aims precisely to ensure the right to food and ensure quality learning” he insisted.
“We who have direct teaching, it is very difficult for us to realize that in the classroom there are students in those conditions of nutritional deficiency as we unfortunately had to perceive in the previous Government period” stated the President of ADES Cerro Largo.
“That is why we celebrate this initiative that is aimed at meeting the objective of ensuring good nutrition for our adolescents and young people” concluded Professor Luis Fratti.
