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High school students after three weeks in strike ended this Friday, student spokesperson Juan Carlos Herrera says the students will return to school Tuesday. Herrera says the students will agree to join the Presidential Education Commission that will debate reforms to the educational system. Herrera says the students will take their six seats assigned.
Herrera warned the students would remain vigilant to ensure the Government meets their demands. He says they have “won plenty, we have won in the formation of a secondary school national union, and we have won our economic demands from the Government.”
He admitted one of the reasons that led them to put an end to the three-week national strike was the exhaustion faced by students. In fact, the lengthening strike worn out students' nerves raw, and in the past few days tension and cracks began to show in the strong students' organization.
Students say that they will work jointly with university students and teachers’ representatives in the Presidential Commission. They will know turn their efforts to get their views known inside the Commission, prepare a proposal to the Government that can be developed into legislation that Congress can debate and truly reform the mechanisms that rule the educational system. Particularly shift the axis away from a profit-oriented system to one were education is a right, as is a strong public education system.
