Teachers, parents and students of the Bernardino Rivadavia school, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución, today held a rally at the door of the establishment to denounce the disqualification of eight classrooms and the lack of response from the City Government, to which they assure that For almost ten years they have been communicating the infrastructure problems that the building has.
Silvia, mother of a student from secondary school 1 of school district 3, maintained in dialogue with Télam that “there are 8 classrooms disabled due to the danger of collapse due to leaks”, and considered that “our sons and daughters are in danger, they can be A roof could fall on top of them or they could be electrocuted by the water that enters on rainy days.”
“The school as an institution exhausted the administrative measures, this specific file was opened a year ago, but for 9 years the authorities have made claims” for different building problems and “now they come and tell us that our children cannot come to school. school” next Wednesday, when the school year for secondary students is scheduled to begin.
“There is a very large distance between what the head of government and the minister announce in the media under a cover that allows them not to be questioned, and what actually happens in the City when one visits institutions like this”María Bielli-porteña legislator
The mother, present at the concentration at the doors of the Bernardino Rivadavia, in San Juan 1575, assured that inspectors from the educational portfolio went to the school “in October of last year, then they returned in December and then in February, but they never started the repair work, they did nothing.”
While the protesters cut off San Juan Avenue, Mario, a music teacher at the establishment, assured that “we are sorry to have to do this, but unfortunately if we don’t do this, nobody finds out.”
“10 years ago we denounced what was a maintenance problem and we complained. But over time, due to not taking care of it, now it is an infrastructure problem because what was just a leak in a slab, over time it was breaking it and then the beam ended up rusting, “explained the teacher of the school to which About 700 students attend.
He also explained that of “about 20 classrooms, there are eight that are disabled” and that, since they cannot be used, “there are spaces such as the library or the multipurpose room that were adapted as classrooms,” but they are not, and they are not enough. to support a full face-to-face modality.
“We need a response from the City Government, that’s why we are here,” said Walter, father of a student at the school
“We need a response from the City Government, that’s why we are here,” said Walter, father of a student at the school, who added that “our boys, children of workers, do go to university, the repeating boys can study and they are not failures, as the minister (of Education of the City, Soledad Acuña) said, my daughter is worth a lot, as are the children of others”.
The man also thanked “the teachers because if education was sustained in a pandemic, it was because of their work, and nothing else.”
For her part, present at the protest, the Buenos Aires legislator for the Frente de Todos, María Bielli, maintained that “there is a very large distance between what the head of government (Horacio Rodríguez Larreta) and the minister (Soledad Acuña) announce in the media, under a cover that allows them not to be questioned, and what actually happens in the City when one goes through institutions like this one that have problems that have been going on for many years and are not resolved”.
Sources from the Ministry of Education of the City assured that it is planned that next Wednesday, March 2
begin the works in that school in Buenos Aires. Sources from the Ministry of Education of the City assured that it is planned that next Wednesday, March 2, the works in that school in Buenos Aires will begin.
Acuña “has not approached the Legislature for two years,” sentenced the legislator, and assured that “she was summoned repeatedly, not only for problems like these but also for statements she has had regarding teachers, students who They were outside the school, but he doesn’t respond.”
Finally, Bielli denounced that the Buenos Aires educational portfolio, instead of putting schools in conditions during the pandemic, “cut the school infrastructure budget by 70%. This year, compared to last year, of course it increased, but year after year it is underexecuted and the necessary works are not carried out.
On the other hand, sources from the Ministry of Education of the City assured that it is planned that next Wednesday, March 2, the works will begin in that Buenos Aires school.
