Soledad Acuña threatens sanctions for teachers who use inclusive language | “If the resolution is not complied with, there will be an administrative disciplinary process”

If it is not complied with, there is a sanction procedure”. With that phrase, the Minister of Education of the City, Soledad Acuña, threatened with sanctions Buenos Aires teachers who use inclusive language in the classroom. In this way, the official once again endorsed an initiative that qualifies the use of “@”, “x” and “e” as “incorrect” use of the Spanish language.

Speaking to the press, Acuña said that the inclusive language -which visualizes the gender inequalities of the Spanish language- “creates an obstacle in reading comprehension and fluency, and in writing by the students who are in a very critical situation”. That argument, which appears in the resolution issued last Friday, does not have -said even by the Ministry of Education- any scientific evidence that accounts for that conclusion.

Then, before the query about what would happen if a teacher refers to his students via inclusive language, the Buenos Aires minister insisted on penalizing the teaching staff. “It is obvious that, like any rule, it has to be complied with and if it is not complied with, there is an administrative disciplinary process. In the same way that if a teacher chooses to evaluate with emoticons instead of numbers. I regulate the ways of evaluating. If it is not complied with, there is a sanction procedure”, Acuna commented in Radio Millenium.

“They are liberal but they prohibit”

Later to differentiate itself from the decision of the Buenos Aires governmentthe Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk, linked the ban on inclusive language driven by her peer from Buenos Aires with a “election question”. “I believe that read surveys and see that a month ago [Javier] Milei makes an exacerbation of machismo and they say: ‘There is something here, we have to discuss this,'” he stated in Radio 10 the official who integrates the cabinet of Albert Fernandez. Regarding the possible sanctions against teachers, Perczyk replied: “In Argentina since 1918 there is academic freedom.”

“The boys use inclusive language because what they are discussing is that they no longer accept gender discrimination. What is happening is very unfair, inclusive language calls that inequality, that injustice, and we must transform that injustice into justice”, added the national minister.

Criticism of Manes

The national deputy and referent of radicalism, Facundo Manesjoined this Sunday to criticize the measure arranged by the Buenos Aires government of prohibit the use of inclusive language inside the classrooms of the schools, which he described as “fulbito for the tribune”. And he assured that the central problem in the City of Buenos Aires is the drop in investment in education, despite having one of the largest budgets in Latin America.

I don’t think that banning is the best way to educateI think we have to motivate, inspire and give examples, an issue is put on the agenda that is not the cause of the poor results”, assured Manes in dialogue with Radio Rivadavia. And although he stressed that “the tragedy” in educational quality crosses the entire country, the City “is no exception.”

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