The authorities of the Magno College of Pillarwhich a month ago left eight disabled students without vacancies, reported in a statement this Tuesday the definitive closure of the institution “from the end of the 2022 Academic Year.”
The communication to the families of students of the Pillaron the region Buenos Aires, announces: “We present to the Undersecretary of Education of the General Directorate of Culture and Education (Buenos Aires) the notification that we attach, in which we request the cancellation of the enrollment of the school and announce its closure from the end of the 2022 School Cycle”.
According to the school authorities Pillar In its statement, the closure “has nothing to do with the numerous difficulties that we encounter along the way, but with a new intervention by the General Directorate of Culture and Education, which for some time has shown signs of not accompanying our plan”.
“The determining reason for the request to drop enrollment was the conclusion we reached about the unfeasibility of this project in the face of repeated interference by the authorities of the General Directorate of Culture and Education. Always”, they wrote in the statement and added emphatically: “We have never accepted that we are prevented from doing what the law does not prohibit or that we are forced to do what the law does not mandate.”
It is that the directors of the Magno not only left students with disabilities without enrollment, but also did not listen to the health and educational regulations during the coronavirus pandemic. They opened the school despite the prohibition that governed the epidemiological emergency situation on the region during the first months of 2021.
words of fathers and mothers
The announcement of the school closure was received by families as “a very big shock” as it was just a few weeks before the end of the school year. Emanuel’s father (student affected because his enrollment was not renewed), Pablo Basz, expressed both “surprise” and “sadness” due to the decision of the school authorities.
Paula, a mother of a fourth-grade girl, said: “It was such a shock, I think as a family we are still trying to process the information.” She anguished, she assured that they still cannot “make sense of it.” Likewise, she concluded: “It is unfair to the entire community.”
