The Buenos Aires Government announced changes in secondary schools this Thursday. They will come into effect from next year and have to do with the elimination of repetitiona measure that Mendoza not only does not share, but rejects due to the lack of results achieved.
According to the regulations, from 2025, secondary schools in the province of Buenos Aires will move to a subject-based accreditation format, with numerical grades quarterly: a format more similar to that of the university level. Thus, the subjects that were passed by a student during one year must not be taken up the following year.
After the announcement of this province, from the Ministry of Education of Mendoza They marked the field and warned that they do not share the methodology that will be used in Buenos Aires due to several factors. Among them, they expressed that the results achieved are not what was expected.
“We do not share the idea of eliminating repetition through a resolution. We believe in the sustained, committed work of all those who are part of the educational system so that the children’s career is complete and successful.”expressed to Sun, Claudia FerrariUndersecretary of Education.
Furthermore, the official stressed that For years Mendoza has been working on a significant number of strategies that tend to promote students.
The promotion rates in the province indicate the evolution that the system has had and based on this it is observed that 10 years ago 30% of students repeated and today the promotion rate is around 85%.
“This has been possible thanks to all the strategies implemented such as: the early warning system that aims to prevent dropout and repetition situations; Another example is the permanent support system for students who are at risk; We also have the support of the trajectories, among others,” commented the official.
When justifying why Mendoza does not endorse the methodology that Buenos Aires will implement, Ferrari said: “Implementing non-repetition, through a resolution, does not guarantee that children who drop out of school today will stop doing so tomorrow.”
For Ferrari, the problem is not solved by implementing non-repetition, since it is true that they do not repeat, but they do not advance in a timely manner either.
Currently, according to official data, 98% of children who enter secondary school continue their educational path until they graduate. In fact, The numbers indicate that the effective expenditure in Mendoza is above 75%.
“So in the province we are working hard to sustain the trajectories and the learning of the students. If the children are in school and are learning, they are not at risk of repeating,” the undersecretary concluded.
About the initiative
The modifications to the Academic Regime were voted unanimously at the meeting of the General Council of Culture and Education of the province and establishes that the course will become quarterly and both segments of the year must be approved with seven.
Currently, it is credited by subject, but it is repeated in blocks. The approved matter is not appealed and the pending matter is intensified.
The latest data from School Results Index (IRE), published by the Observatory of Argentines for Educationindicate that In Argentina, only 22 out of every 100 15-year-old boys complete their schooling in a timely manner, that is, without having repeated or dropped out of school and having achieved the minimum expected performance, at least Level 2 in the PISA 2022 tests in reading and mathematics.
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