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Santa Cruz: students who graduated from secondary school went to school for only 2 years and 3 months

2021-01-17T17:58:55.829Z


In the case of primary school, they attended four years. It is because of the pandemic and because of the strikes. They warn of the impact on learning and the future of students.


Carlos Guajardo

01/17/2021 6:00 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 01/17/2021 6:00 AM

While the face-to-face return to schools is being discussed, a report released on education in Santa Cruz shows that in that province the closure due to the pandemic aggravated a critical structural situation.

Students who finished primary school last year went to school for only four years out of seven of schooling, while those who graduated from secondary school were in class for only two years and three months.

The data comes from a study carried out by Gabriel Ruiz, lawyer and university professor, magister in Philosophy of Law and specialist in Right to Education, at the request of the PRO controller in Santa Cruz, Silvana Giudici.

The report carried out by Ruiz (with its own data since the province does not provide official data) analyzed how many days of classes the 2020 graduates should have had (who started primary school in 2014 and secondary school in 2016, respectively) and how many they actually had.

Thus, it reveals that between 2014 and 2020 - all years governed by Kirchnerism, the first two with Daniel Peralta as governor and the rest of Alicia Kirchner - primary school students went to class 723 days out of a total of 1,260.

And those from high school attended 407 out of 900. The worst years were 2017 and 2018. In the first, over 180 calendar days there were only 63 with boys in the classrooms.

And in 2018, 102.

Professor Ruiz.

Drew up a report on school days in Santa Cruz.

But the statistics were not the only worrying data that were released: Ruiz told

Clarín

that “there are mothers, entire families who unfortunately had to separate from their children because they have been sent to other provinces where they have the opportunity to study.

This happened especially in 2017 ”.

“In the study that I carried out, not all the stoppages that were carried out were considered.

Because classes were not only suspended due to strikes by the teachers' union.

They also stopped personnel affiliated to ATE or classes were suspended due to lack of water, lack of gas, disinfection, non-teacher strike or training courses.

So the numbers of days lost can increase ”, added Ruiz.

Clarín

contacted Karen Levin, press officer of the Santa Cruz Provincial Education Council, whose president is Cecilia Velázquez.

He brought her up to date with the report to get the word from the authorities in the area.

He promised to consult and respond.

But the answer never came.

Another significant data is the high dropout rate.

María Laura Centurión, a public accountant and teacher at a secondary school in El Calafate, explained to this newspaper that “in the secondary school where I teach there are 8 first-year courses.

About 300 students enroll annually.

And only 60 graduate.

And added to that, of those 60 there are very few who leave with the title in hand.

They leave without having completed their studies or their curricular spaces due to the few days of classes that they had a percentage of the years of schooling ”.

The protests of teachers were constant in the Patagonian province

According to Ruiz, “in high school, since Alicia Kirchner took office, the boys went to school for 2 years and 3 months.

Even counting 2020 with the pandemic, if the cycle had supposedly been completed, it would have been 3 years and 3 months.

This circumstance implies social and structural damage to an entire generation. "

"These kids are going to be able to have precarious jobs nothing more. It is going to be a minimum percentage that can really overcome this difficulty of not having had an education. They are destined to have enormous difficulties in being able to access a quality higher education. And that for them tomorrow is going to prevent having qualified jobs. Here what has happened in Santa Cruz is a generational cut. Where there is a generation of boys who have serious possibilities of understanding and serious possibilities of not accessing university levels, "said the teacher.

Silvana Giudici, the PRO controller in Santa Cruz and who closely follows the educational problems of that province, was lapidary: "The different governments, all Kirchnerists, from Santa Cruz left a whole generation of students without classes or training. The crisis education is much more serious than the worst pandemic. It excludes and denies future opportunities for children from Santa Cruz. "

The former Minister of Security and national inspector of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich, also added her criticisms, who remarked that the party has been demanding the return to face-to-face classes since mid-2020. "Do not start classes in provinces such as Santa Cruz or Chubut that have taken more Two years without resolution of teacher conflicts is unacceptable. We demand responses and solutions from the national government. "

Centurión, based in El Calafate since 1999 and who teaches Orientation in Economics and Management at School 9 in that paradisiac town, added another piece of information: “The Education Council of the province issued resolution 612 in May 2020, by which all Students who had taken four subjects in 2019 (when there was still no pandemic) and repeated their grade were promoted, when in fact they should not have passed.

That is to say that those boys who had repeated fourth and fifth and did not do it because of the coronavirus, are going to try higher education or private jobs with the third year.

And not complete ”.

“The only thing left for them is public employment.

Then they make them militants and they become part of the political patronage.

They have no other choice ”, he says.

With Ruiz, he also questioned the Conectar Igualdad program: “It was a welfare program that had no support either in training or in technology.

What good is it for kids to have computers if they don't have Internet access?

Chubut.

Correspondent.


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Source: clarin

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