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Politics, unions and money ?: why the City closed the schools and there are not even virtual classes

2021-05-28T05:12:46.132Z


The debate over attendance and the risk of having to pay teachers double. Eduardo Paladini 05/26/2021 1:59 PM Clarín.com Politics Updated 05/26/2021 1:59 PM Change is making noise everywhere. After taking his fight to the highest judicial court in the country and becoming the standard-bearer for face-to-face education, the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta , decided to give the students of his district a kind of early vacation. There will


Eduardo Paladini

05/26/2021 1:59 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 05/26/2021 1:59 PM

Change is making noise everywhere.

After taking his fight to the highest judicial court in the country and becoming the standard-bearer for face-to-face education, the head of the Buenos Aires government,

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

, decided to give the students of his district a kind of early vacation.

There will be, in total,

nine days without classes

.

Not even virtual.

What happened in between?

Clarín

reconstructed, based on different sources in the City, the

arguments of a decision that could bring costs to Larreta

.

For now, he left the bow free for his political rivals to try to capitalize on the stand.

One, obviously, was Governor

Axel Kicillof

, who accused the head of government of not taking care of education, despite the fact that he himself

has had empty Buenos Aires schools for more than a month

.

To all this: how many of those kids will be receiving education via zoom?

Will it be systematic and good?

The other rival, also predictable, was the union member

Eduardo López

.

He is one of the toughest representatives of Buenos Aires teachers and 

after continuously promoting work stoppages

-with or without a pandemic-, now that Larreta has closed the schools, he said that they want to work.

The political and union debate


In the City they assure that precisely to give debate in favor of the presence, now they could not resign themselves to teaching by zoom.

"If we give in to virtuality,

how do we make the teachers return to face-to-face classes afterwards?

" Said a high-ranking source from the Buenos Aires government.

The internal debate prior to the decision was strong.

A

Clarín

is satisfied that until hours before the announcement, Minister

Soledad Acuña

argued that the least primary follow the presencialidad.

Lost.

"We have been saying that presence is essential. And since it is only three days, the school calendar still allows you to make up those days in December. It

was preferable that and not have them virtually,

" insisted the CABA source.

-

And why not a mixed system, as many schools already have?

, he consulted this newspaper.

- Only secondary schools have a bimodal proposal.

Primary not many.

70% are full-time and have yes or yes to all the boys every day

, he justified.

Roberto Baradel (Province) and Eduardo López (City), in a meeting of teachers' union members before the pandemic.

To try to lessen the controversy, the Buenos Aires Government

sent an email to thousands of Buenos Aires

.

It went like this:

"Hello, we want to tell you that since the holiday of Monday May 24 was restored and next week it will only have three business days, we are going to run the school calendar so that on Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 and Friday 28, the boys and the girls do not have classes and we can continue to take care of each other.

These three working days will be recovered in person in December

".

A cost issue?


Clarín

consulted with another source in the City, why these virtual days were not kept, and at the end of the year there were three face-to-face days.

"

There you have quilombo with the unions

. They will tell you that they have already worked. And if you get them to go,

you have to pay them double

. And the City, with the cuts and the pandemic, is taking care of the expenses," the official replied.

A third leader added: "There are only three business days, the calendar has flexibility to adapt and the virtual option is not the best. Not everyone can, not everyone is useful.

Being able to have three days of face-to-face versus virtual learning seems better to us

. If it had been a longer period, we would not have suspended it. "

A Buenos Aires school in April, when the City held face-to-face classes.

Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.

"Besides," he continued, "if virtuality was set up for those three days, it was just a matter of fact that

the unions were going to sit on it and try not to return to presence

."

And he closed his message via WhatsApp: "1. School is the last thing to close. 2 The virtual does not replace the face-to-face. 3. Every day counts, that's why the days are made up. WE COMPLY EVERYTHING".

-

And if now the Government has to extend the virtuality after the 31?

, asked this newspaper.

- I always heard that the intention was to return to the presence.

Is it so?


Source: clarin

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