The spokesperson for the Argentine Government, Manuel Adorni, announced this Thursday that the Executive led by Javier Milei is preparing a legislative reform to “punish” “indoctrination” in schools. According to the president's spokesperson, the Government will create a “channel” so that parents and students can report “political activity that does not respect freedom of expression” or when “they do not feel that their right to education is being respected.” “It saddens us to see content in classrooms and in events tinged with ideological militancy,” Adorni stated in his daily press conference in Buenos Aires.
Adorni has not specified what penalties the Government plans to establish, when the complaints channel will be enabled or what he means by indoctrination. The spokesperson has limited himself to mentioning a viral video from Tuesday, when Argentina commemorated Veterans and Fallen Day in the Malvinas War. In the recording you can hear a few seconds of a teacher's speech during the event held at a school in the province of Buenos Aires. “The media convinced society that going to war was good and necessary,” says the teacher about the conflict, which began on April 2, 1982 with the invasion of the South Atlantic islands promoted during the last few years. months of the Argentine military dictatorship. A group of parents applaud him, while another group responds with whistles and demands that the microphone be turned off.
The teacher continues with her speech and recalls a statement by the Argentine Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino, who during last year's campaign stated that a Milei Government would respect the rights of the British occupiers on the islands. “Based on journalistic sources we know that the Argentine Foreign Ministry anticipated that, in the conflict over the sovereignty of the Malvinas, it would consider the will of the kelpers, recognizing a self-determination that they do not possess,” says the teacher to finish her speech. “It offended students, families and veterans,” the presidential spokesperson stated about the event.
Tension between the Government and teachers over salaries
The presidential announcement was made known during a day without classes in much of Argentina. On Wednesday, the main teachers unions called for a strike of activities for this Thursday to demand the elimination of the Fonid, a fund that the national State sent to the provincial administrations to complement teacher salaries, and for the call for a salary update in the midst of inflation of more than 270% year-on-year. It was the second strike called by teachers this year after classes began in March. In the city of Buenos Aires, where teachers gathered to protest in front of the National Congress, the police repressed the protests with tear gas enabled by a Government protocol against street closures.
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