They would reduce repetition in Buenos Aires secondary schools: they will debate the modification of the educational system

The Province of Buenos Aires seeks to reduce the level of repeaters in high schools, so the General Education Council could debate the project these days.

The controversy awoke in August 2022 when it became known that the General Directorate of Culture and Education analyzed the possibility of updating the secondary regime.

According to the information to which he was able to access PROFILE, there is a meeting scheduled for next Thursday, February 9 at 4:00 p.m. and, in the event that the initiative is discussed and approved, the formal resolution will be published. However, It is not yet known if it will be approved. after the discussion of the Council, made up of three representatives of the Frente de Todos and another three of Together for Change, along with four trade union representatives.

If approved, everything would indicate that This new educational model will begin to take effect on March 1 with the start of the school year..

140 thousand students repeat each year

When a circular of this project began, the director of Education of the Province of Buenos Aires, assured that repetition “as it works now, is useless”, since, according to statistics, more than 140 thousand students repeat each year.

In this way, Education has the objective of ending the high level of school dropouts, so it could reduce the number of core subjects. In this sense, Sileoni explained a few months ago that “there is scientific evidence that you don’t learn more by repeating a grade. If out of 12 subjects he succeeded in nine and repeated, he wasted time in the nine passed.”The kid loses a year and there is discouragement, abandonment”, he added.

Santa Fe announced that high school students will not repeat more than one year

besides, add the record of educational trajectories, in which each teacher constantly monitors the educational process of the student. The level reached during their educational trajectory will be the one that determines if a subject is approved or not which, following what was implemented during the pandemic, will differentiate those who reached the corresponding learning of the subject, those who did not but maintain a link pedagogical and to those who did not do it nor were they linked to the school.

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