One week before the 2023 elections, the Minister of Education, James Perczykcame out to the intersection of the libertarian candidate Javier Milei, warned that the educational future is at stake and said that the rights achieved are at risk if the extreme right wins.
By AM750, The minister assured thatand the public education is in dispute” in the country and that this is not speculation, but rather “everything is exposed” in the electoral campaign. “Sergio Massa plant to increase financing to meet schooling goals, open new universities, scholarships. And there are other proposals that talk about adjustment and tariffs and privatization”, he pointed out.
At this point, he emphasized that “it is incredible to be “discussing” in the middle of 2023 achievements that Argentina “had already conquered.” “Now we are discussing the very essence of education in Argentina,” the official lamented.
Perczyk also recalled that to find policies similar to those sought by Milei, we must go back to the time when university education was subject to fees and access was restricted. “The fee at the university, which they tell us as a novelty, Argentina had until 1948 y during the last dictatorship”.
For this reason, not without a strong charge of criticism, he recalled the opposition’s speeches and the bad step of Mauricio Macri when speaking on the subject, years ago, when he was President: “This idea of ’falling’ into the public university, of closing universities, it was said with more shame. Now they openly say that we must remove children from schools and privatize them.”
The thing is that, for the minister, those who talk about freedom forget that when Law 1420 of 1884 was discussed, the idea of mandatory public education was put on the table. “We believe that education is what makes us free. And we want to champion the idea of improving public education to ensure that everyone learns what they need to learn,” she noted.
“(We want) there to be classes every day, every hour. That is why we propose doubling the number of technical schools. “We want the kids to have books and computers, they want them to have weapons,” he concluded.
