The City’s Minister of Education, Soledad Acuña, said that the people who choose the teaching career “are from the lower sectors” at the “socioeconomic” and “older” level. He also asked the families of the Porteño students to report the cases of “ideological line descent” in the classrooms. The truth is that the sayings soon generated repudiation by all educational sectors. Among them was the Minister of Education of the Nation, Nicolás Trotta, who spoke to El Destape Radio and stated: “The statements are extremely unfair and incoherent, at a time when the entire teaching community has made a huge commitment in an exceptional year.” For his part, the Secretary General of the Unified Union of Education Workers of Buenos Aires (Suteba), Roberto Baradel, also criticized the sayings in dialogue with Télam and assured that “it is regrettable that he denigrating and stigmatized teachers”. In turn, Acuña was reported to INADI by the Union of Education Workers (UTE). This was confirmed today by the guild with a statement on its website, which also contains the instructions for teachers to file their own complaints with the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism. Meanwhile, the hashtag #OrgullosamenteDocente, which became a trend on Twitter, where teachers posted images and videos in defense of the trade.” By choice and by conviction,” wrote the teacher Angelica Graciano; “With the duster to the end of the world, ” added Rocío Paola Carta.
I’ve been a Primary Level Teacher for 15 years. Next year, if all goes well, I’ll also be an Initial Level Teacher.
Passion is called Madam Minister of Education. And love, much love for the white cape full of superpowers.#OrgullosamenteDocente ❤ pic.twitter.com/z3VtajLPWy — Profe (@RominaCarrizo77)
November 17, 2020
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