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Horacio Rodríguez Larreta with his minister Soledad Acuña.
The Buenos Aires government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced that starting this year boys and girls in the last year of high school will have 30 hours of financial education. The decision was communicated by the local Minister of Education, Soledad Acuña. The most striking thing about this new measure is that those in charge of dictating the content will be members of private companies and not teachers. “What clearly appears and is seen with evidence is the commodification of secondary education “, said to Page 12, Angélica Graciano, Secretary General of UTE-Ctera.
The new measure is added to the initiative of the internships compulsory labor communicated a month ago. “This is in addition to the plan to develop soft skills and the 120 hours of educational practices in the workplace. At the Ministry of Education of the City we want to prepare young people for the world of work and equal opportunities,” Acuña said when informing the decision.
The financial education It will be added to the curricular contents that boys and girls in the last year of high school learn from both public and private schools. The topics that Education defined as priorities are: vocational guidance, electronic wallets Y cryptocurrencies, personal and family budget, responsible consumption, savings plan, credit products and golden rules for your finances, among others.
The planning of the new educational module was carried out in conjunction with leading companies in the fintech sector such as Ualá, Mercado Libre, the Fintech Chamber of Argentina, Mujer Financiera, Ripio, Balanz, Afluenta and Poincenot. In fact, those in charge of dictating the content will be members of these private companies.
Although the program will be held during school hours, it will be held at the “Development Training Center” located in Barracas and not at educational institutions.
“This new measure means a disarticulation of the educational system, which benefits entrepreneurs and tries to mold the educational system to the business world “Jorge Adaro, assistant secretary of the Ademys union, told this newspaper.
“Indeed this has to do with the announcement of free work or job internships as they name it. What this government does is very violent, because they seek all those instances that can generate resources for the private sector and with that they clearly advance towards the privatization of the private sector. educational system “, affirmed Adaro. And he added: “In addition, they are rejecting teachers. It is a mockery and a well class politics that benefits the owner of the market. “
Along the same lines, the head of UTE-Ctera spoke: Graciano told this newspaper that what the Buenos Aires government is doing is to “introduce market contents and subject formatting so that they are left to their own fate. We will not allow the advance of the commercialization of education in our City. “
“We demand that Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Minister Soledad Acuña stop using education as a political marketing platform and convene the sectors that make up the system to discuss an agenda that involves a serious debate on the education needed by the youth of the City of Buenos Aires, “said a statement released by UTE.
Ian Villala, delegate of the student center of the college “Antonio Devoto“and a militant of Secondary Rebellion, described the new initiative as “disastrous” and with a “great commercializing tinge.” “With this announcement, Larreta and Acuña are carrying out a reform of the study plan that was not consulted with either the teachers or the students,” he said.
“And there is also the question of leaving teachers out of this. There is no pedagogical discussion because those who are going to give this content are the companies Villala maintained. The same boys and girls who are going to do the internships will be going to work in spaces with greater age without any protection space, without teachers in charge and without any work conditions and no pedagogical discussion. “