Opposition Senators they asked the Minister of Education leave the confrontational tone with the Teachers College and insisted on the formation of a broad table to agree on the return to face-to-face classes. The Secretary of State described the conflict with the teachers union as artificial and assured that the politicization of the educational system prevents a greater understanding, ruling out that the plan is being imposed on the schools.
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The conflict between Minister of Education, Raúl Figueroa, and the leadership of Teachers College, due to the return to face-to-face classes in the short term, was at the center of the debate that was generated in the Senate Education Commission, where the Secretary of State presented the plan to reopen the schools, in those areas that enter phase 4 of the de-financing plan.
The chairman of the commission, PPD Jaime Quintana, He pointed out that Minister Figueroa makes a mistake in criticizing the teachers, after accusing them of not having delivered proposals in the midst of the pandemic, adding that it is not possible to intend to reopen the schools with the unions against it.
He Socialist senator, Carlos Montes, He reiterated to the Government the need to set up a broad working table, where a plan is drawn up for the challenges that come in education due to the pandemic.
He Minister of Education, Raúl Figueroa, He responded to both parliamentarians that it is necessary to listen to each other, regretting that the work behind the plan for the return in 2020 is not valued, pointing out that the conflict – which he considered artificial – is due to the politicization of the educational system.
Earlier, the Undersecretary of Education, Jorge Poblete, He ruled out that Mineduc is alone in this plan to return to face-to-face classes, assuring that “thousands of teachers, parents and students” support them.
In his presentation to the senators of the Education commission, Minister Raúl Figueroa, ratified what Radio Bío Bío had advanced two weeks ago – when he announced the Mineduc plan with the guidelines for 2020 – that once he returns in the presence, one will return to the summative evaluations; without specifying what will happen with the promotion or grade averages of those students who decide not to return to school this year, because the return is voluntary.
