Sofia Scheid expressed her questioning of the proposal to remove school meals from schools. Photo: file.
Dr. Sofía Scheid, Master in Educational Management, argued that the delivery of school lunch resources directly to families, as Efraín Alegre proposes, would have negative consequences such as less inclusion or school dropout.
Scheid established two pillars on the Efraín Alegre’s approach to take out the school snack for the children and give the parents G. 200,000 per month. First, she said that there are no objectivity criteria when this social policy tool was designed and, giving a food subsidy for families, is part of said social policy tool and not pedagogical like the one we have.
“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 this regard, the magister indicated that objectively what makes a snack or school lunch is the attraction to children, unfortunately it is a reality. There is also a question of family dynamics, when you give a mother G. 200,000, she who works, then, who is going to cook, questioned the professional. That has its cost, she delimited, due to the fact that families organize their work dynamics considering that in schools they have that opportunity to eat.
“What does pedagogy do, it works precisely the opportunity to reach learning thanks to the fact that the student goes to class,” he replied.
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Another of the current serious problems of education is school retention and school dissertion is very high. On this point, the interviewee pointed out that there is a low number of students completing 12 years of schoolinghighlighting that it is tremendously necessary that subsequent abilities be put on the same.
“We want to open the university, but the great mass has not finished their 12-year schooling, what are we talking about? That is why it is very serious when social policies are designed because education It is also a social policy, we must be serious and have a transdisciplinary perspective“, he affirmed, emphasizing that it is essential to have the need to work in a comprehensive information system.
held that there are great failures in education that are the gaps that must be solved, such as basic sciences, mathematics and reading comprehension. Education is the policy with the greatest penetration of the State, each dollar that is invested in a social policy system, 0.25 cents is invested looking for the Paraguayan because there is no comprehensive information system and the solution is to establish the territories with pedagogical models according to the demands.
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About him pedagogical impact that he would have to miss school lunch or snack, Scheid replied that the impact would occur in three pillars: inclusion will be less, children will not go to school, the containment is going to be serious, there will be no retention in the classrooms and the quality because “you don’t learn with hunger”.
Lastly, he advised seriousness when designing an educational policy tool.
