The community of Bartolomé Ayrolo special education schoolin the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Devoto, gathered on Friday at the establishment to reject the transfer of the school building, which dates from early 20th centuryto the project carried out by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires to install a museum within the so-called Wine Districtwhich aims to promote wine activity in the district.
Students, teachers, fathers and mothers gathered at the door of the building located at 4300 Lincoln Avenue as part of a call that they promoted after learning that the authorities of the deaf school had to hand over the keys to the building known in the neighborhood as Ceci Palace, built in 1913where they developed activities linked to the teaching task.
The school attended by students of the levels primary, secondary and of Adultsconcentrates the dictation of the classes in an adjoining building that has seven years oldwhile keeping part of his tasks, especially teachers’ meetings and administrative tasks, in the Palace.
In that old building, it worked since 1938 the school for the deaf and also for decades there was a boarding school. However, the teachers told Télam that since early 2000 the building began to deteriorate and does not receive any type of maintenance work from the Buenos Aires State.
One of the teachers present at the demonstration, who preferred not to give her name, said that in the second half of last year several Ministry of Education officialsaccompanied by contingents of people outside the Buenos Aires administrationto make tours.
“We were very happy because they said they were going to fix the building, but later we found out that, in reality, they were going to remodel it to affect the Palace to the Wine District“, he specified in reference to the plan of the Buenos Aires Government to execute on a polygon that includes the neighborhoods of Villa Devoto, Villa del Parque and La Paternal to develop a pole for the dissemination of the wine industry.
The project, approved by law at the end of 2021 in the Buenos Aires Legislature, provides for the creation of a Wine Museum, which, according to what the residents of Villa Devoto and from the school speculate, will be installed in the Ceci Palace.
“This building is very valuable because the owners are the ones who integrate this educational community“, highlighted a teacher and announced that on Wednesday they will concentrate again at the school gates.
For her part, the legislator of the Front of All Victoria Montenegro accompanied the claim and pointed out that “we are going to embrace this school so that this attack on public education“.
