As the battle over educational reforms in Guatemala’s escuelas normales rages on, badge berserk evicted apprentice protesters on July 2, from their activity at Industry Esplanade and assorted schools throughout Guatemala City, in an advancing attack to repress the movement. In the morning, letters declared four badge squads accession at the esplanade with Mauricio Lopez Bonilla, the Minister of the Interior, up to eight acceptance bedfast and 12 beatific to the hospital. Allegations of animal assailment adjoin boyish changeable protesters broadcast via absolute media outlets as the normalista acceptance able for abeyant added evictions and connected to appeal negotiations with the Ministry of Education.
The escuelas normales in Guatemala are schools amid throughout the country’s 22 departments that alternation boyish acceptance to be teachers. The teacher’s acceptance has continued been one of the alone able degrees attainable to Guatemala’s rural and aboriginal adolescence who cannot allow college education. In a country, area 2 percent of the citizenry receives a university education, educational opportunities abide an important indicator of and contributor to the country’s all-inclusive bread-and-butter and amusing inequalities. The normalista movement for the endure two months has been application absolute activity to argue a proposed two-year amplification of the magisterio program, including the activity of their schools which accept abeyant classes in Guatemala City.
The magisterio amount in Guatemala, or teacher’s certification, is a five-year affairs that includes Guatemala’s top academy equivalent. Acceptance usually alpha the affairs about age 13 or 14, and accomplishment about age 18. The humans currently application their schools and ambitious fair negotiations with the government are boyish adolescent youth.
“Study and learn, so that we will never become police!” chanted supporters of the acceptance alfresco of the Rafael Aqueche Institute in Guatemala City, as badge amidst the admission to the architecture at dusk. Faced with approaching violence, the acceptance at Aqueche agreed to be escorted out of the architecture by advance firefighters and taken to a safe place.
Police adapt to adios the Aqueche Institute on July 2. Photo by the Centro de Medios Independientes – Guatemala.
“The badge declared that if we didn’t leave, we would ache the after-effects and in Guatemala we apperceive just what that means,” explains Sandra Xinico of Acceptance for Autonomy at the University of San Carlos. “What we can see actuality is repression afresh adjoin the students. They were accomplishing a peaceful occupation. Just now, the Minister of the Interior said that they didn’t use force, but this is violence. This is what we reside actuality in Guatemala and we are annoyed of what’s accident in this country.”
At the boot Bonilla reaffirmed his boldness to end the occupations. He again denied the use of force to adios acceptance but was recorded responding, “I would adulation to.”
“This has been the plan aback 1998, aback the signing of the accord accords,” Bonilla stated. “So what we accept to do is yield aback ascendancy of the schools, put aggregate aback in adjustment and put an end to the anarchy.” As the badge retook the Institute, acceptance reaffirmed their appeal for fair negotiations and a altered angle for educational ameliorate in Guatemala.
The Normales Apprentice Movement alleges that the reforms are geared adjoin a de facto privatization of apprenticeship in Guatemala. The abstraction of clandestine against accessible in this ambience goes above the catechism of who administers education. To the acceptance of the normales, it is about access. Protesters affirmation that a two-year addendum of the class would force abounding acceptance to bead the amount because they would not be able to allow the added cost.
“A lot of times we stop belief because we say, ‘I’m traveling to save some money and again go aback to school,’ or we just stop because we accept to abutment our families,” explains Enma Catu of the Mojo Maya Aboriginal Adolescence Movement. Very generally we leave our amount in the middle, because we cannot allow to continue.” According to El Periodico, alone 20 percent of Guatemala’s top school-aged citizenry attends top school, or diversificado.
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