What does the reform consist of?

He Government of the province of Buenos Aires modified the way of teaching classes in the Buenos Aires territory: starting next year the repetition in the school secondary school and from 2025 an accreditation system by subject will be implemented. What does it consist of?

As indicated Alberto Sileoni, general director of Culture and Education of the province“currently it is accredited by subject, but you repeat in block. We want to start from another paradigm. The approved subject is not appealed if there is an acquired right there. This Thursday, with the repetition even the subjects that you passed you have to appeal The passed subject is not retaken and the pending subject is taught a lot, we say it is intensified.

And he added: “It is not possible to think that the future is in the past. We owed ourselves a modification to the secondary academic regime.”

What does the elimination of repetition in secondary schools in the Province consist of?

The main points of the school reform promoted by the Government of Axel Kicillof are:

• The student will not be forced to take all the subjects of the year. He will simply have to retake those that he has failed.
• lUnapproved subjects – up to four – will be taken through an accelerated course between December and March where the student’s situation will be evaluated and if they can reverse the disapproved. In case of having more than four without passing in a year, those that exceed the number must be appealed in the following school period.
• An entire year will no longer be repeatedbut there will be an intensification of teaching at the beginning and end of the two semesters in each failed subject, as long as there are up to four.
• In the event that the subjects pending approval are five or more, only then those that exceed the limit must be appealed.
• The evaluation will be by numerical grade in two semesters, in which must be approved with 7 or more in each of the segments.
• Different training proposals will be incorporated, among which there will be more possibilities for internships in community organizations and areas of higher study.

The Buenos Aires Government explained the decision to eliminate repetition in the province

The director of Culture and Education of the province of Buenos Aires, Alberto Sileoni, defended the initiative that eliminates repetition in schools in the Buenos Aires territory: “I am not the minister of continue.”

In radio statements, the Buenos Aires official explained the measure and used the City of Buenos Aires as an example: “We are all having a hard time getting the kids to learn, to the City of Buenos Aires that has been governed by another political sign for 18 yearswhich has stopped repetition,” said the leader who questioned: “Why is there only a requirement if you repeat?”

“Why do we get so nervous about a system that is 100 years old and that It has not been proven that kids learn more when they repeat? The world came out of repetition a long time ago, much of it in Argentina. “More than half of Argentina already has another academic regime,” he added.