Political and social referents made public their “repudiation of the proposal” of the national deputy and candidate for the presidency of La Libertad Avanza, javier mileiof end compulsory primary and secondary education, and instead establish a system of vouchers for access to public schoolsince, as they warned, “it would take away rights from those who have less.”
The libertarian lawmaker said in an interview that “There is nothing for free”, in reference to free and compulsory education and asked her interlocutor if she would be willing to put a gun to people’s heads to get them to do something. “There is nothing free, there is no such thing as a free lunch,” he said. miley“someone has to pay for it,” he emphasized.
When detailing his proposal on the education system, the presidential candidate assured that would implement “a voucher to study and not be held hostage to the State’s indoctrination system.” “We are not doing very well with the obligation, because people are leaving on the road, so the obligation system does not work,” Javier stated. miley.
The repudiation of the sayings of the deputy came from education specialists who “remembered the constitutional right to teach and learn”, which arises from article 14 of the Magna Carta. Thus, the Minister of Education of the Nation, Jaime Perczyk remarked that Milei’s “is an anti-rights position”, and compared the proposal of the vouchers, with the decision of the government of Augusto Pinochet in the Chilean dictatorship“that destroy public policies and generate inequality.”
In the same line, the Minister of Education of the province of Buenos Aires, Alberto Sileoni, who remarked that “Education is a good that the most needy classes appreciate very much and they will go out to defend it with their lives”. He also assured that it is “absolutely unrealizable and regressive with respect to the rights of citizens.”
