According to a report by the Radio Pichincha station, the federation indicated that it is necessary for the new government to adopt this measure since the budget cuts and the dismissal of teachers during the period of the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the situation throughout the system, detailing. .
In this sense, the Deputy National Coordinator of the Teachers Network, Nelly Mineo, referred to the destruction of the school district in the past six years.
There is the Minister of Education who asks us to find sponsors to give alms to public education, Mineo denounced.
For his part, the national coordinator of that organization, Wilmer Santa Cruz, revealed that the teachers’ group decided to support the Citizen Revolution (RC) duo, made up of Luisa Gonzalez and Andrés Aráoz, in the early elections of August 20.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education revealed that more than 56,600 minors dropped out of school during the 2022-2023 academic period in the Sierra-Amazonian system, due to economic factors.
A recent study conducted by the NGO World Vision Ecuador showed that parents cannot afford the expenses related to their children’s education, and that children and adolescents are forced to work to contribute to their household.
The survey revealed that 34 percent of minors who dropped out of school did so to help around the house.
The investigation by that humanitarian NGO warned that every student who drops out of school runs a greater risk of labor exploitation, abuse, maintaining early marriages and becoming an early father or mother.
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