The educational community that makes up the
Nuevo Horizonte Educational Center
is baffled.
On Monday,
just two weeks before the start of the 2023 school year
, parents and teachers received the news that the inclusive school that housed their children for years was closing its doors.
Under the rays of the sun, the parents of the students met to fight against this abrupt decision of those responsible for this institution located in Matheu at 1472, in the San Cristóbal neighborhood.
07-02 The Nuevo Horizonte school closes in Matheu 1472 San Cristobal.
photo: Andres D'Elia - FTP CLARIN _FER3493.jpg Z ADelia Delia
In this context, several of them expressed their anguish and the uncertainty generated by the fact that their children,
many of them students with disabilities
, have been left without school so soon after the start of classes.
"We are willing to do whatever. For us the option is not to stay without school.
Our children are not a shoebox
, it cannot be that the government gives responsibility to people like that. The school does not work to become millionaires.
The boys are all devastated, they are on the street
," said María de Los Ángeles, one of the mothers at the school who, starting today at 9 in the morning, is waiting for the directors of her son's institute to give her an answer.
07-02 The Nuevo Horizonte school closes in Matheu 1472 San Cristobal.
photo: Andres D'Elia - FTP CLARIN _FER3544.jpg Z ADelia Delia
All the parents who met at the doors of the Nuevo Horizonte Educational Center agree on the same thing: the institute authorities did not make this decision overnight, but rather it was something premeditated
since December.
07-02 The Nuevo Horizonte school closes in Matheu 1472 San Cristobal.
photo: Andres D'Elia - FTP CLARIN _FER3510.jpg Z ADelia Delia
María de Los Ángeles recounted what happened hours before inside the school, when all the parents were summoned to receive the money they had paid to ensure their children's enrollment in 2023.
"
They treated us like dogs
, they showed us a drawer full of money and they looked at what each one had paid, and they returned it to you with interest enough to make you grateful.
They threw you the bills
, they looked at you with absolute coldness at what you told them, They didn't move a hair," the woman explained.
07-02 The Nuevo Horizonte school closes in Matheu 1472 San Cristobal.
photo: Andres D'Elia - FTP CLARIN _FER3425.jpg Z ADelia Delia
The teachers of this school with more than 30 years of history also stayed on the street.
"Just today the dismissal telegram arrived, they just found out that they don't have more salary, that they don't feed their families anymore. There are people who are the breadwinners of their house, and they won't be able to pay for a place to live," says María. of the Angels.
News in development.