Starting next year, Colegio La Victoria de Ayacucho will have to be considered as a bilingual intercultural educational institution (EIB), however, teachers and managers question this decision as they consider it risky.
In an interview with Correo, the director of the school, Angel Gaspar Cortéz, stated that the first problem they will encounter is that with this new modality they will have to remove ten teachers, whom they will not be able to locate in their respective specialties.
“Mathematics, communication and CTA drop from six to four hours, increasing mother tongue and English dictation from hours to three hours, so we calculate that there will be a surplus of 10 teachers, which will generate an environment of chaos and conflict in the school”, affirmed Gaspar Cortéz.
He added: “We are going to ask Professor Wilmer (EIB specialist from UGEL Huancavelica) to distribute hours in the school so that they do it as requested, they are authoritatively asking for it.”
He said that they estimate that by 2023 250 students will withdraw, which means that there would be another 10 surplus teachers, which implies that by 2024 they would border the number of students.
He explained that for many parents it is not attractive for their children to study Quechua at school, because they do not consider it useful for their pre-university preparation, however, the main problem is that there are no teachers trained to teach to speak and write in Quechua.
“We want to protect the school from dismantling, from disappearing, as happened in other schools that had the JEC,” said the campus.
He also said that it is not that they reject interculturality, but that they have seen the rejection on the part of students and parents.
They question that data has been hidden from them in the recharacterization before the MINEDU, despite the fact that he has a document that proves otherwise.
