The two children of Maria Castelo were transferred of an educational unit from Quito to Guayaquil. They are in basic education.
They are part of the 165,000 ordinary transfers that have been attended within the Costa-Galapagos regime, whose classes for the 2022-2023 school period will begin in the coming days, in a staggered manner.
The transfers, which ended on April 9, are the processes by which families request that students change institutions from a prosecutor to another prosecutor or from an individual to a prosecutor, because they have changed their address.
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“There are students who request, families of these students who request a change of educational institution because they have moved or have changed their address and therefore there are 165,000 who have already been treated, but there will be a new moment of transfers”, said the Minister of Education, María Brown, in an interview in Radio Quito.
He added that an “unprecedented number” of transfers has been attended, this because only in the city of Guayaquil has exceeded 100,000.
In zone 8 of Education that includes Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón, in 2020-2021 there were 46,554 transfers and in 2021-2022, 41,411.
At the national level in the 2020-2021 school period there were 4.3 million students and in the Costa-Galapagos regime more than 2,451,000 students.
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“The vast majority of cases at least receive a solution. Families do not always get the space or we do not always have space in a specific educational institution because families can even request in which educational institution they would like their children to be. When there is no space or quota in that place We look for an educational institution as close as possible trying to reduce this risk of the student being enrolled in a very distant institution,” said the official.
Herlinda Bosquez, of the Network of Teachers of zone 8, said that there are situations of parents who want to change their children from private education to a public one, but they were not able to have cup allocationor because there has apparently been more demand.
In addition, he heard the case of two sisters that they are in one same tax institution, but with different schedules, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon, and their mother wanted to unify them in the morning, but there was no possibility of them going together either.
For Bósquez, there is in some cases unwillingness and institutions that do not give opening.
Erika Lainezwho was Undersecretary of Education for zone 8 between 2017 and 2019, considered that these transfers were due to the fact that in the two years of the pandemic many students who were in the private system passed to the prosecutor.
“As they were online, students automatically acquired knowledge online and did not have to attend classes, therefore parents did not pay much attention to the transfer they had to make (…) and that is what is being reflected at this moment, those approximately 165,000 transfers that, right now, they are being passed from one institution to another to be able to find an institution that is much closer to the place of residence,” added Lainez.
Darwin Llumitaxi, president of the Federation of Secondary Students of Ecuador (FESE) Guayas headquarters, considered that the transfers are adequate while do not stray from the housing area of the student, but if these changes, instead of facilitating mobility, complicate it, it would be demonstrated once again that there is improvisation within education.
He argued that there are several cases of students living in the sector Christ of consolation and have been transferred to schools and colleges that are not in that jurisdiction.
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In Castelo’s opinion, the transfer is complex because there are educational institutions that ask for more documents than others and they go to the establishment from which they are going to be transferred to obtain the documentation. This, despite the fact that she has not done any paperwork with the Ministry of Education.
“Yes delay. Yes it is annoying because all the schools should be connected to a single system, which would be the Ministry of Education, a platform (…) taking into consideration that the students have an identity card number”, indicated the mother of the family.
Their children will return to classrooms on May 4. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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