Students of the National Buenos Aires took over the school against the continuity of the rector

Students of the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires (CNBA) maintained this Tuesday morning the seizure of the establishment against the continuity of the management of the rector Valeria Bergman, facing the next elections of the institution, and in claim for infrastructure problems in the historic building located in the porteño neighborhood of Montserrat. one block from Plaza de Mayo.

After holding the morning, afternoon and evening shift assemblies on Monday, more than 200 students decided to take over the establishment from last night until Wednesday, in rejection of Bergman’s application for a new four-year term at the head of the institution. .

“This December marks four years of her management and we are demanding that Valeria Bergman not be re-elected as rector, because in recent years we have noticed a very significant deterioration of the school,” the president told Télam from the door of the National Buenos Aires school. of the Student Center, Victoria Liascovich.

“This December marks the fourth anniversary of her management and we are demanding that Valeria Bergman not be re-elected as rector, because in recent years we have noticed a very significant deterioration of the school”Victoria Liascovich

Among the reasons for the claim, the fifth-year student detailed the institutional deterioration, infrastructure and security of the students.

Asked about the conflict, the Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk, maintained that “what is there is an institutional decision of the UBA that has to decide the positions of the rectors of its secondary schools that have a certain election model.”

And he added on channel C5N: “The UBA will do it responsibly, it will do it with its institutional mechanisms as it has always done. The UBA has institutional mechanisms to solve it. The UBA has the scope, the institutionality and the maturity to solve it accordingly” .

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— CENBA (@PrensaCENBA) October 25, 2022

Expanding on the student claim, the head of the CNBA maintained that “institutionally, we present projects and he sleeps on them and does not sign them, such as one to reform the absence system (a form of justification for absences), which was democratically approved by this council made up of the entire educational community and Valeria does not sign it”.

Regarding the building infrastructure, Liascovich pointed out that “A fan and a window fell on a student’s head, there is a risk of collapse in a classroom and pieces of ceilings fell in the geography department and in the chemistry department“.

Good evening everyone, I am Victoria Liascovich, president of the student center of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. I extend the letter I wrote about the decision to take the school today.

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— Victoria Liascovich (@VickyLiascovich) October 25, 2022

In addition, he pointed out the lack of guaranteed security for the students: “They entered the school to steal and took 17 LED televisions, so the security of the students is not guaranteed either,” he said.

Regarding the academic situation, the student affirmed that, in the four years of management, the current rector “did not call for any teaching competition.”

“This implies that the academic excellence of the National Buenos Aires is no longer effective because that implies that the rectory is appointing teachers by hand who are related to their union, which did not happen with the previous rector,” said the teenager, who clarified that the taking will be maintained until Wednesday inclusive, so that later “the course of income continues”.

Meanwhile, a school teacher, Joaquin Salituri, stated before the media at the school gate a position contrary to the students’ measure, which he described as “a political issue due to the upcoming elections of the student center “.

Salituri, who is the operational director of Secondary Education at the University of Buenos Aires, a teacher in the field of pre-university schools at the Carlos Pellegrini, Technical Education and National Buenos Aires schools, and is a former student, expressed about the seizure: “For Of course I do not share it, it is a decision out of context that we understand in an electoral framework, on November 3 and 4 they have student union elections”.

“The topic of contests is false, they are underway, but it is a process that had to be adjusted to a digital logic, called Distance Procedures (TAD) that was not provided for in the old regulations, and in a pandemic it was canceled because there was a face-to-face logic , with instances in which teachers have to give an exhibition class to check their suitability”, he explained and said that “orders are already high and in the next few days a Mathematics teacher will start”.

During this year, according to Salituri, the Comprehensive Maintenance Plan for the building is being put into practice and “two new bathrooms are being built and a lot of work has been done.”

In addition, he added that “it is being evaluated that the institution enters as a national heritage so that it is taken care of” following the parameters of this type of buildings.