A letter signed by relatives of children who study at the Colegio Alemán de Medellín, the same one in which the daughters of Daniel Quintero are enrolledhas caused controversy and rejection in social networks.
Quintero was recently suspended from his position as mayor of Medellín by the Attorney General’s Office for alleged participation in politics during the electoral contest that the country is experiencing in the face of the votes to elect the new president of Colombia.
The document, shared on Twitter by the journalist Ana Cristina Restrepo, is addressed to the board of directors of the institution and begins by pointing out that there is no intention “of a public debate around what we comment on in this letter and, therefore, the It has a strictly private character and is restricted to the circle of interested parties”.
Following this, the letter clarifies that this “is not about politics, or parties, or support for presidential candidates, much less questioning the right to education.”
After highlight the business community of Antioquia and clarify that those who sign the letter share these fundamentalsand that for this reason they chose the institution as “a partner in the formation of our children”, the letter refers to the Quintero Osorio family.
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We are surprised by the admission of the Quintero Osorio family to the school
In addition, the families point out that the institution has had “selection principles” focused on “selecting families more than children.” “The school is made great by the fact that the children are good as a product inseparable from the good ones that should be the principles professed and practiced by the families to which they belong.”
“That said, the admission of the Quintero Osorio family to the school is surprising to us, since, apart from the right to education, the criteria and discretion historically observed by the school seem to have been inexplicably omitted and this time in a case whose notoriety is evident, as evident it is in opposition to the principles and values that they profess and distinguish them”, says the document.
All this, to finally point out in the letter that “hehe Quintero Osorio family has become publicly famous for systematically and brazenly attacking, disqualifying, dishonoring and seeking to destroy, without any evidence, the entire social and business structure founded on the great values mentioned above.“.
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“With this, we express to the board that in our opinion, this decision is unworthy and borders on an affront to the majority of families that we find that what we want to instill in our children is achieved with a scale of very strong values,” he concludes. The document.
This is the letter of “disagreement” that is circulating in the school that admitted the daughters of @QuinteroCalle.
In the 21st century in a plural and liberal school, voices of retardation and exclusion are raised.
They say it’s a matter of “principles.”
Exclude as “principle”? 1/2 pic.twitter.com/9L9q1xJhf4– Ana Cristina Restrepo Jiménez (@anacrisrestrepo) May 25, 2022
About, Quintero rejected the letter with few words on his Twitter account, where he wrote: “Pain in the soul”.
For its part, the Quintero’s wife, Diana Osorio, also rejected the letter asking to exclude her daughters from said school and sent a message explaining why he chose that institution for their education.
“We chose Colegio Alemán because we want our daughters to learn from a society that rebuilds its memory to deconstruct pain; to get to know a free country that lives and nurtures difference, one that speaks German but also listens to the language of millions of migrants, a diverse and open country, a country that is an example for ours, which still fights against classism, fascism, xenophobia and aporophobia. I am sure of the liberal values that I want to pass on to my daughters, hopefully the rest tooOsorio said.
a diverse and open country, a country that is an example for ours, which still fights against classism, fascism, xenophobia and aporophobia. I am sure of the liberal values that I want to pass on to my daughters, hopefully the rest as well.
– Diana Osorio (@diamaov) May 25, 2022
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