The Union of Education Workers (UTE) denounced this Thursday that it is “impossible to carry out the activity in the school building” due to climatic contingencies, demanded from the Buenos Aires government “dignified teaching and learning conditions” and denounced “lack of investment in infrastructure in schools” in the city of Buenos Aires Aires.
This was stated by the union organization through a statement entitled “Enough of campaign slogans, we need decent teaching and learning conditions”where it summons families, students and teachers from public schools in the city to a meeting to organize next Thursday, March 9 at 6:00 p.m. at UTE, Bartolomé Miter 1984, CABA.
“Once again, in the face of a climatic contingency, the negligence and lack of investment in infrastructure of the schools of our City. In this case, the heat wave revealed the lack of operation and the poor condition of the ventilation devices,” they said in the published text.
For the reasons stated -and within the framework of the @multixlaeduc– Families, students, cooperatives and teachers from public schools in the city meet to organize ourselves this Thursday, March 9 at 6:00 p.m. in UTE )Bmé. miter 1984)
@angegraciano@pablolfrancisco@PabloCesaroni
— UTE (@utectera) March 2, 2023
And they assured that “more and more schools need air conditioning because the fans are not enough to heat the environment.”
In addition, they recalled that “in the month of July of last year from the Multisectorial for the Public School we denounced that more than 200 schools presented severe infrastructure problems in CABA, this is more than 20% of the total.”
“At the same time, we warned that this situation, far from improving, would worsen. Today reality tells us that we were right. No work was done over the summer and now the schools show an even more advanced state of disrepairthey continued.
The heat wave exposed the neglect and lack of investment in our City’s schools.
Together with the educational community, we demand conditions worthy of teaching and learning from Larreta.https://t.co/MxfE8XSa8f
— Angelica Graciano (@angegraciano) March 3, 2023
In this sense, they criticized the Head of Government of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodriguez Larretawhich yesterday during the opening of the ordinary sessions in the Legislature “repeated campaign slogans”, while “thousands of teachers and students in the City suffered from high temperatures, reaching the point of having to suspend classes in many schools such as the Normal No. 1 and College No. 10 DE 8 among others”.
“To this must be added the thousands of pibxs that do not have a vacancy in a public school and do not receive any response“, they highlighted.
And they called for “dignified teaching and learning conditions.”
“That is why once again we demand: greater investment in infrastructure, that access to fresh water be guaranteed in all the City’s schools and the immediate repair and tuning of the ventilation devices in each school. If the conditions are not met and basic rules it is impossible to carry out the activity in the school building”, they completed.
