The province of Buenos Aires will launch a new regime school starting in 2025. For the 750, the general director of Culture and Education, Alberto Sileoniexplained the central points to understand these changes, which include new curricular designs and the end of the repetition system.
1. A comprehensive update
First of all, Sileoni explained that there will be a “comprehensive update” of the educational system, which does not encompass a series of loose measures, but rather a new way of thinking about secondary school in a district in which there are 4,700 establishments and more than 1,700,000 students. This will have two stages, a first that will be launched in 2025 and another phase in 2026..
2. Changes in repetition
The biggest change will be in the evaluation system and the end of repetition. “We are going to leave a matrix that is 100 years old in Argentina, which is the repetition matrix. Because we can say that there can be demands without the kids repeating what they have already approved,” the official explained.
“There is a right that is in question,” he highlighted, and gave an example: “A boy takes 12 subjects, passes nine and has three pending and that is why today he repeats the whole year and recourse to the subjects already approved, with nonsense “It has ever happened that when you appeal, you fail the one you approved the previous year.”
3. Long-term changes
For 2026, meanwhile, what is expected is a change in the content of the subjects. “There will be more content related to life sciences.” communicationwith the automationwith the robotics“said Sileoni while announcing that securitization and calls for tenders will be opened en masse.
4. New approval regime
The subjects will be quarterly and will be approved after seven. “You have to have at least seven in each quarter. He doesn’t pass with six and eight. If there are four subjects in which knowledge has not been satisfied, there are a team of trajectories that will accompany, that will give an intensification”, said.
And he added: “There will be 15 days of support at the beginning and end of each semester. The boys are not going to study alone. Today when there is a middle class boy who has a problem he has a private teacher. The kids from the most deprived sectors have to bear it alone. There will be a team there. If you have a fifth subject, you have to reject that one.”.
5. It is not a new regime in the country
And while the end of repetition may sound like an innovative policy, Sileoni explained that this is not the case, that the end of repetition is already in force in many countries of the world and the region. In this way, he responded to the criticism that this unanimously approved project has already received from some national officials.
“Half of the Argentine provinces do not have repetition. Some sectors that raise their voices, I want to tell you that in the Buenos aires city for some years can be passed with four priors. I say this as fact. Because there is a thing of civilization and barbarism and It seems that the province is the metaphor for everything that is wrong”, he pointed out harshly.
6. Changes in the last year
On the other hand, the Buenos Aires minister assured that there will be changes in the dynamics of the last year: “We will accompany the course with the intensifications and at the start. Because there are many kids who don’t graduate because they have three or four subjects left.”
And he added: “Sixth year is much more social. The boys will be able work in local companies, in community organizations. There is going to be another type of assistance regime. It is a secondary school that responds a little more to the demands of the time.”
7. Other information about the new regime
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This initiative was unanimously approved by the General Council of Education of the province.
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It is planned to form an “Educational Trajectory Definition Team” (EDTE), which will guide students and families
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In the province the evaluation will be returned to numerical terms.
