translated from Spanish: National Institute will decide in December if it becomes mixed

the rector of the National Institute, Fernando Soto, confirmed to Radio Bio Bio, which in December will be the consultation to find out if the school becomes mixed. This is a demand which was proposed years ago, but we recently when non-sexist gained momentum by the discussions on education. The director of the site indicated that they proposed to the School Board make the inclusion of women in three stages. The first experts will deliver information and guide to each Member of the community, then there will be debates and finally, “every Member of the community may express its position”, through the vote. Soto confirmed that consultation in which participate students, guardians, teachers, assistants and managers, will be in the first half of December. This change is well seen by the Under-Secretary for education, Raúl Figueroa, who expressed his support in both develops and deliberating more participatory as possible. For specialists initiative not should be seen only as a physical change in the environment but also a cultural shift that would gradually help to “dismantle all the discriminatory practices of the school culture”.

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