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The mayor of Pirque, Cristian Balmaceda, assured that the plan to return to classes will continue and accused accused that what happened on Thursday at the Liceo El Llano, where no student attended the reopening, it was the result of a “boycott and a montage”.
It should be noted that Cristián Balmaceda is the one who denounced his cousin and senator, Manuel Jose Ossandón, for influence peddling, after allegedly taking steps to benefit a company called Cavilú SpA, in which one of his children participates, Nicolas Ossandon.
“I think that mistakes were made here. Instead of talking only with the parents of the courses that were going to be invited, they should have talked to the Parent and Guardian Center of the school, in general. Another mistake is that if the teachers were talked to they would work, maybe also the union leadership should have been invited 1“, said the communal authority, who renounced his membership in RN.
“What happened at the El Llano high school It was a montage of a group of teachers who did not want to enter, nor go back to classes – he assured – they called the press and, what is more painful, they communicated with the children so that they would not go that day“
“If in El Llano the children don’t want to go because the teachers don’t want to go, they don’t go no more. It doesn’t matter to us“he lashed out.
College of Teachers: “We absolutely discard any setup”
Consulted by Cooperative, the metropolitan regional president of the College of Teachers, Carlos Diaz, denied that there had been a boycott: “We absolutely discard any montage.”
“I called a press point, but we had no precedent as to whether five, 10, 20 or none were going to that school,” added the leader.
“We have not talked with the children, what we did know is that all the surveys, including El Llano, showed that more than 90 percent of the parents were not going to send the children to school, they had said that And what’s more, they sent it to the mayor through a letter, “he stressed.
What happens in other communes?
For a commune to reopen its educational establishments, it must be in Phase 4 of the plan “Step by Step“or in Phase 3, in case the holders make a request.
The Municipality of Peñalolén -community in Phase 3- raised a digital query so that students from fifth grade to fourth grade, parents and teachers could define whether or not they would return to classes, which translated into a participation of more than 7,000 people.
Carolina Leitao (DC), mayor of Peñalolén, stated that “more than 68%, total, indicated that they disagreed with returning to face-to-face classes“.
“With these data, today we are meeting with: the education unions, with the parents, and with the students, to be able to organize what would be the alternative“Leitao pointed out:” But not back to class, but (…) to solve some specific needs of some students, to make accompaniments, to deliver some services that we are not delivering today“.
“In practice, a face-to-face return, I think it is unfeasible“, he assured.
“We will not be forced”
Meanwhile, the mayor of Huechuraba, Carlos Square (PPD), stated that what “should have been done from the beginning is that: after football, after trade, after malls, after movies, after all the normalization of life, the children were the last to enter, because children are the most valuable thing a country has“.
“We in Huechuraba are not going to be forced to do what, naturally, tells us that it is dangerous“, he sentenced.
