It was at the event for
Veteran's Day and those who fell for Malvinas
at Secondary School Number 4 of Verónica, Buenos Aires district of Punta Indio. Teacher
Soledad Reyes, deputy secretary of the Suteba union and identified on her social networks as
“Nac y Pop militant of Néstor and Cristina”
was
sent off with a politicized speech in which, among other things, she said that “the media convinced society that going to war was right and necessary,” in addition to
questioning the Foreign Ministry and the Government of Javier Milei
.
Other repercussions followed the rejection of the veterans, who withdrew from the event that was going to honor them. Among them, the official one, led by spokesperson Manuel Adorni, talking about changing the Education Law, or actually modifying two of its articles to
penalize indoctrination in schools
, in addition to enabling a channel in the Ministry of Human Capital so that Families
report
these situations.
The decline of
the Kirchnerist story in the school environment
is not new. It ranges from warnings about
La Cámpora booklets
in schools in various districts, visits by its activists to give talks and
proselytize in the classrooms
, complaints against Alicia Kirchner when she was Minister of Social Development for the publication of
children's notebooks with Cristina's image. Kirchner
and Eva Perón to the Paka Paka channel and its Manichean version of History.
Beyond questions as crude as those reported, several points remain to be clarified: who would be in charge of determining
when it is about indoctrination
and when it is about information to invite debate and the
development of critical thinking
? What are the possibilities that An idea that does not agree with your own be classified as a downgrade? To what extent could the speech that the President himself gave at his school, Cardinal Copello, speaking of the
“brainwashing of public education”
to the students because it has “recontra red content” deserve the promised sanctions, although without clarify which ones it would be? It is a very thin line that separates one thing from the other.
The problem is far from over at this point. A report presented by the Argentine Observatory for Education showed surprising results: the latest PISA tests in the country show that
3 out of 10
15-year-old boys from the
highest socioeconomic segment
do not reach the minimum reading level. That is,
they do not understand what they read
. Their understanding of texts is lower than that of the most advantaged students in Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru and Mexico. And they only surpass those of their peers in the same rank from the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Paraguay.
This finding in Argentina
contradicts the so-called “cradle effect”
according to which there is a direct correlation between socioeconomic level and school performance. The cause? Specialists question
teaching methods
and speak of
failures in teacher training
, the
low valuation of evaluations
and the lack of focus on learning, among others.
In 2017, the Enseñar tests determined that 40% of new teachers were below the average level in both reading and writing and in their pedagogical criteria.
A good part of the Argentine tragedy lies in all this. And it is not resolved by giving freedom for each person to decide if they can “
afford to send their children to school
because they need them in the workshop.” as libertarian representative
“Bertie” Benegas Lynch
said . Manuel Belgrano made it clear much earlier: “Without education we will never be more than what we unfortunately are.”