During this day, the Minister of Education, Marco Antonio Ávila, maintained that there is “no reason” to carry out protests, all this after different emblematic high schools in the center of Santiago have called to demonstrate within the next few days.
In conversation with him Cooperative Newspaperthe minister pointed out that “last year was a year in which we launched the educational system after the pandemic. Issues as essential as the food system, the complaints that there were regarding quality and quantity, the deterioration of the infrastructure caused during this time, plus the lack of a more systematic reconstruction policy and the situations of sexist violence that some high schools experienced”.
“All these elements have been accompanied by the Ministry of Education during 2022,” said the Secretary of State, adding that “we have responded.”
He also indicated that “in the framework of the reactivation that we promote for 2023 and the recovery of learning -which is the most essential thing-, we believe that it is a year in which all efforts must be made to move towards a normality that allows us to “First, that students recover their learning. Anything that interrupts that, anything that takes us out of focus, is clearly going to complicate that learning process.”
Regarding the calls for student mobilizations, he indicated that he believes in them “as long as this is within the framework of respect for public space, without burning buses, with the opportunity for dialogue,” adding that “it is not no act of violence is justified.”
Finally, the Carabineros announced that they are managing a special plan around the high schools where calls have been made to demonstrate, emphasizing emblematic educational establishments.
