militancy Memoirs of a teacher "subversive" Avenue of the camellias. MA Burzaco No. 2
Education Region V
District No. Alte Brown.
that morning in the central patio (and while waving the flag mast in the blue sky of March) the students of the MA N º 2 Burzaco listened to the teacher designated to deliver the speech at the ceremony commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the coup of 1976, with the face of circumstances that often teachers read the speeches popped his words reading from a sheet (to comply with orders issued by the Undersecretary of Education)
Facts and events were happening devoid of feelings as well as the listing of the dates and events as if what commemorated there was not a reflection on the events but simply a repetition of what the history books recounted about what happened in our country and many and many of these did not conceal their opposition to the issue of genocide and forced disappearance of persons were treated in the schools and students.
I had been warned by the director Stella Santoro to stop insisting on the agendas write sentences of tributes to my friends missing and had rejected me without any basis of the proposals on the issue presented to the authorities.
fact had already been denounced by some colleagues to enter politics in the classroom and ideologies fill the heads of the students in my charge.
situation that would lead to an investigation in which the complainant had to withdraw to my determination to not let the situation because doing so was to give rise to memory were injured by those working in situations of dependency of the Directorate of Education and Culture of the Province of Buenos Aires and insisted on ignoring hide what happened during the military dictatorship in 1976.
As it happens or at least as happened in this case, Human Rights and the teachers not only enjoyed the support of the leadership team but also and without my knowledge tried to shift my position and from school because I was what always I have been teaching for Almirante Brown, a teacher "subversive."
An evil that had to be removed. Eva
Giai, Graciela Caserta and members of the School Support Team did not hesitate to become simple bushings and act as accomplices of the Director of Records and signing establishment haunting the aisles putting in evidence before the tutors and support staff of the establishment. Nevertheless
had managed to lift my office courses GALLERY OF MEMORY and disclose the events occurring in the dictatorship not only in school but in the district through field work and surveys and research we conducted in Burzaco Square, Railway Station, the local Church and inspectores.Se headquarters had forbidden me to approach the place where the act was done, as the Director of Establishment, Stella Santoro, felt that my presence as a survivor of the detention centers and as EX-Disappeared could lead to situations of tension between profesoresNo was well seen, by staff of the school, reading and commenting in the classroom of banned books during the military dictatorship. Even fewer were
accepted the open and participatory debates held in the auditorium of the school could attract students from other courses.
Because students participate if they are encouraged to participate and ask if they can ask and discuss, question and draw their own conclusions if they are allowed talk, ask and cuestionar.Pero to a teacher "subversive" as well as for their students indicated, all double effort was starting to build again in every meeting that was destroyed by anonymous hands that do not conform to complain to the teacher, students discredited and destroyed it with his hands and his work construían.Impedida to be with my students in one thirtieth anniversary of the Coup is in remembrance of that bitter experience the cold that was sticking to my bones and my muscles as they came the strains of the Marcha "Avenida de las Camelias."
The March military dictatorship that used its press to announce población.Vaya to know who wanted to accompany the event with a march that brought the images of the nefarious genocidal murderers of 30,000 people, among whom could be counted on teachers, students, support staff and educational service.
could not be present that day to express my experiences.
Those that had happened and that I did not have the history books.
But I could feel the presence of Nene, the Popy, the Turk, the Engineer, my neighbor cell in the well, Marta, Claudio, Luis and so many more that are positive they came to stand beside me that day to whisper in the ear to continue demanding justice, and will always remember.
For while only one of the we had survived the recall had won the struggle for Justice, Equality of Opportunity and a country for everyone.
As was the dream, the utopia of those that March 24 came to school and stayed with me while the teacher in charge of the speech went on with his speech.
meaningless. Vacuum
emotions and void of feelings.