11/17/2020 7:44 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/17/2020 9:50 AM
One more controversy, and they go, between the national government and the Buenos Aires one.
And again with education at the center of the scene.
Is that the sayings of Minister Soledad Acuña that transpired in the last hours, in which she questioned the teachers and accused them of "military instead of teaching", generated a strong controversy, which reached the national government.
It was the Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta, who this Tuesday picked up the glove and harshly questioned his counterpart from the City of Buenos Aires.
"Soledad Acuña's statements are
extremely unfair and incoherent
, at a time when the entire teaching community has displayed an enormous commitment in an exceptional year," said Alberto Fernández's official.
Speaking to
El Uncover Radio
, Trotta said that "there
should be an apology from the City Government
" because "beyond the minister, something that characterizes the Buenos Aires government is the absence of dialogue with all the actors of the educational system and with teachers in particular ".
During a talk with the deputy Fernando Iglesias, broadcast on YouTube, Acuña targeted the teachers, accused them of "military" instead of teaching and even called to "report" when there are acts of "indoctrination" in schools.
"It is one of the great problems. It has to do with the roots, with the training and profile of those who choose to study, who
choose the military instead of teaching
."
Acuña said, among other things, in reference to teacher training.
"It is not the first time that the minister says that she would not sit down with unions to talk about education; the Government of Mauricio Macri was the one that abandoned the national teaching parity, where not only wages are discussed," Trotta said Tuesday.
The head of the National Education portfolio, strongly questioned by the delay in the return to face-to-face classes in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic (practically the school year was 100% virtual in 2020), said that "it is a time for that the City Government reflect to
prioritize an educational agenda
, with an idea of dialogue very different from the one it has had in recent years. "
"We have had discussions with the unions, but the absence of dialogue weakens the educational agenda," Trotta closed.
In his talk with Iglesias, held on November 8 but viralized in the last hours, Acuña pointed directly against teacher training.
In this regard, he said 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 to think, not to say what to think
."
That answer came after being asked "how to control indoctrination in schools."
"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.
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