11/16/2020 1:40 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/16/2020 1:49 PM
A strong controversy broke out in the last hours after the statements of the Minister of Education of the City of Buenos Aires,
Soledad Acuña
, in which he points out against teachers and calls to "report" when they are reported, went viral acts of "indoctrination" in schools.
"The root of what is over-ideologized and
political militancy in the classrooms is in teacher training
, it is in how we teach what a teacher is, in the profile that is defined about what it is to be a teacher," Acuña said in a talk he had with the politician and journalist Fernando Iglesias.
There, he stated that "the great discussion" on the subject "has to be how we teach to teach, because
a teacher who learns well knows that he has to teach how to think, not say what to think
."
That answer came after being asked "how to control indoctrination in schools."
In the virtual meeting between Acuña and Iglesias, which took place on November 8, the head of the educational portfolio assured that "virtuality" gave families the opportunity to "see what was happening inside the classroom" since " Before, the teacher closed the door and everything was between them and the boys. "
There, he made a call to
report when indoctrination happens
.
"It is difficult to intervene because you are a mother and you do not want to harm your child. But without formal complaints about what happens inside the classroom, we cannot do anything. The most serious thing is what happens in the classroom. The cases in which we have, we intervene and work, "he stressed.
Another phrase from Acuña, which unleashed a wave of repudiation messages on the networks, had to do with teacher training: "It is one of the great problems. It has to do with the roots, with the training and the profile of those who choose to study. , who
choose the military instead of teaching
".
"The left has taken on a very large force where, in addition, the profile of the students has an increasingly clear bias. This is the same throughout the country and is reflected in the surveys carried out by the national government, they
are increasingly older people of age
who choose the teaching career as the third or fourth option after having failed in other careers, "he remarked.
And he added: "If one looks by socioeconomic level, which should not be a determining factor, or in terms of cultural capital, when contributing to the classroom, the truth is that it
is from the lowest socioeconomic sectors
who choose to study the career teacher".
The response of the teaching unions
Angélica Graciano, secretary general of the UTE, criticized the Minister of Education and accused her of being "angry because the teachers do not accept her designs" and of being "in a campaign to launch her candidacy."
"From the point of view of the government of education, it is the worst since the return of democracy," he declared in dialogue with El Uncover.
And he added: "The minister does not accept academic freedom and this type of practice
takes you to the darkest places of the dictatorship
."
In addition, he stressed that the official "once again tries to set an agenda and is unaware of the educational feat that teachers carry out to guarantee classes."
For his part, the deputy secretary of Ademys, Jorge Adaro, expressed to the same media that "what Acuña said is not surprising because it is one more provocation" and recalled that "this is even part of what was the entire campaign for UNICABA, that is, she accuses teachers of having ideology, it is outrageous. "
Finally, he called Acuna's position "fascist" and attacked: "It is outrageous that they ask for the non-ideologization of teachers,
that they put plants in the classrooms, then
".
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