After the start of online classes for this 2020-2021 school year, the cases in which teachers have been seen shouting and verbally offending students have begun to be registered and it seems that the violence is adapted to the technology, which unlike what has been experienced in classrooms, this has been recorded on digital platforms.
The memories of a teacher thrown through the air, the wooden eraser, the hair pulling or the “brads”, the blow with the ruler in the style of “teacher Canuta” or the sunny ones in the civic square of the school, seem to have disappeared or rather they were transformed into new forms of “discipline”, now limited to a computer and a mouse.
The Basic Education Institute of the State of Morelos (IEBEM) reported that during the school year that began, no complaints have been registered for child or youth abuse by a teacher, the last were in person the previous school year.
“In this school year we do not have any records, in the past we did have only two, one in Cuernavaca, in a campus in the Chapultepec neighborhood and a second case in Cuautla, which are still being investigated. I want to make it clear that these are very specific cases and that they are not determining factors in the actions of the teaching profession, which is always conducted ethically, ”explained the head of IEBEM, Eliacin Salgado de la Paz.
The records are derived from “non-assertive behavior” by teachers, which occurred in the 2019-2020 school year.
The State Commission for Human Rights of Morelos (CDHMor) reported a single management attended by bullying or school abuse against a student of basic education during the year 2020, that due to the care of the minor and his family the data is kept confidential, in this case no complaint was initiated.
In 2019, the CDH Morelos reported having provided four consultancies, one management and four complaints initiated by the same events against minors in basic education.
On the part of the head of the State System for the Protection of Girls, Boys and Adolescents (Sipinna), Danae Denigri, ruled out that the agency has records of school abuse during this school year, making clear the close communication that exists with the educational authorities, with whom they work on a model of a “purple code” to combat violence against children from any field.
What does it take to rebuild the situation so that teachers can exercise discipline and avoid the perception that students are being mistreated?
“Constant training and dialogue between all elements of the school community are effective tools to combat harmful behaviors within the educational environment, for this reason IEBEM has established collaboration agreements with CES Morelos, CDH Morelos and with the faculty of psychology of the UAEM, to strengthen teaching competencies and in turn establish effective dialogue mechanisms that allow to settle, clarify and resolve discrepancies between teachers, parents and students, and thus allow peaceful, harmonious, democratic and inclusive coexistence to prevail in each of the 1,800 preschool, primary and secondary schools in the state. In addition, the IEBEM and Sipinna maintain a close relationship with the objective of disseminating, defending and enforcing the rights of children, with the objective of identifying, attending to, and promptly combating possible or probable cases of violence in the school context from anyone who be the source, “replied the head of IEBEM.
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