A Report of the Department of Building Infrastructure of the General Directorate of Secondary had advised against build accessibility ramp at the entrance of the IAVA Lyceum where is the union hall
According to the technicians’ report dated March 13, reported by Montevideo News (TV Ciudad), was “non-viable” build the ramp at that point because “the unevenness to be saved between the sidewalk and the level of the finished floor of the gallery on the ground floor” It was from “2.09 meters“.
?RAMP – In a report from the Department of Building Infrastructure of DGES, it advises against carrying out a ramp in the IAVA at the access to the union hall “makes it unfeasible to think of a ramp solution”. The cost
amounts to $497,900 @MVDNews pic.twitter.com/fiC7kp1HJN— Martin Duarte (@duarteok) April 26, 2023
“The only way to bridge this gap so that access is universal would be through a platform lift completed with a ramp system for the first flight of two steps,” the report explained. The staircase has a further ten steps of original marble.
The total price amounted to $497 thousand, but the document recommends not doing this intervention by “economic variable“. Instead it suggests current access by Museum of Natural Historywhich is connected to the high school.
“In this case it would only be necessary to place a small moving ramp that saves approximately 10 centimeters in the access gate to the museum and prepare a glass enclosure that allows access to the interior of the museum and the high school to be divided into sectors,” the report mentions.
The controversy over the union hall
Almost a month after the presentation of the document, the General Directorate of Secondary wanted to advance in the construction of the ramp at the entrance where does the union hall work from high school
The director of the IAVA High School Leonardo Ruidíaz refused to evict the students of the union hall before Tourism Week. The director did not have the keys to that room.
Ruidíaz’s refusal to the request of the general director of Jenifer Cherro Secondary School led to a dismissal summary and retention of half the teacher’s salary.
The IAVA Student Guild (GEI) organized various occupations in high school asking for the restitution of the director, in turn, Fenapes then called a nationwide strike in support of the director.
