High school students call for “mochilazo” for March 9: “We have been open to dialogue all this time and still we did not receive a response”

This Friday, March 3, the academic school year officially begins and various organizations of secondary students have already called for a “student backpack” to demonstrate next Thursday, March 9.
In that sense, the Minister of Education, Marco Antonio Ávila, said that he hopes that the mobilizations will be “hopefully without interrupting the school schedule”, since “remember that we have to recover many learnings, therefore those school hours are very precious”.
“That these mobilizations are hopefully peaceful, I am always with the doors open to the Ministry of Education to receive the requirements that they have raised with us,” Avila told Radio Biobío.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Coordinating Assembly of Secondary and Secondary Students (ACES), Gael Palape, asked “What do we students have to do to really listen to us?”
“Because we have mobilized, we have sent letters, we have been open to dialogue all this time and yet we did not receive a response. Let it be clear to you that we have been with this petition for more than ten years. The students are going to continue mobilizing,” he added.
Following the call, the presidential delegate of the Metropolitan region, Constanza Martínez, emphasized that the authorities, together with the Carabineros, are making preparations to face the student mobilizations and others, such as 8M or the Day of the Young Combatant.
“In that there is a permanent coordination with Carabineros that allows us to lift those critical points, but also to have a permanent coordination during that day of the way to be addressed, not only reactively, but also preventively, to be able to have a quiet and safe region during the month of March, “concluded Martínez.

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