On Monday May 12, 2008 classes began first and second year high school in the establishment Colonia Berro. For the first time, adolescents living in these households will be able to initiate or continue high school. This is a special program of access to secondary education aimed at young people served by the INAU for various reasons do not enter the formal system.
Courses are taught in four rooms especially suitable, two of them installed in the homes of safety: SER and Piedras.
small groups are working on promoting the personal attention and attention to safety aspects required when dealing with young people deprived of their liberty.
The courses are taught in two shifts, morning and evening, with the duration of the same flexible, adapted to the pace of learning and retention of students in the institution.
programs are based on the proposed Educational Areas of Education Division of Child and Adolescent Institute of Uruguay (INAU). The system is similar to community classrooms, allowing the subjects approved in two annual installments.
Each subject will be approved with a final exam taken by the teacher of the year and two teachers provided by secondary schools.
"More than 45 students of different levels are integrated into the proposal. They come, stay, defend their classroom and class time, we are giving a lesson to us, "said one of the teachers. Some of them, in the School itself, others, safety criteria, they do in the homes where they were placed
The Dr. Roberto Berro Education School is undergoing a new stage in its existence. After several months of preparatory work and work in educational areas, re-started an initiative that goes back years and was suspended 90 years later: the internal access Secondary Education.
There is part of the concept of education as a tool for social inclusion of young people, promoting further continuity within the education system.
On the grounds of the School, working with adolescents, mainly from households Ariel, Bridge, and Cerrito, who attend the class together. Classes are carried out from Monday to Friday in two shifts-morning (09:00 to 12:00.) And afternoon (14:00 to 17:00).
groups have been organized so they are not too many for what, in general, are no more than five people. Program Director of the Colony, Isabel Bissio explained that children who choose to join the educational process, are "proving" subjects. In a period of three months, they sit an exam and go saving the nine core subjects each year. Anyway, if they so wish, can take the nine subjects at a time. However, the bet attempts to take firm steps, discarding haste and valuing the time devoted to the study. The educational process involves from first to tenth grade.
In centers that have higher security requirements, Piedras, Ituzaingó-Being and the experience takes place within households, also in two-shift system.
If retention of youth in the boarding school not too long, it aims to establish the first contact with teachers in the colony and then continue their education in areas teaching in Montevideo, according to the Program Director.
As teachers, whose appointment is the responsibility of the Board of Secondary Education, the idea is to have 18, two per each subject included.
parallel working in the area of \u200b\u200bprimary and many of the boys not yet completed school education and, to this end, each household has its own master.
expedite is seeking primary accreditation so that they can then begin to work in high school.
Admission to the educational, although not binding, aims to find the means for the young to integrate and start classes. "Usually they do because they feel like," said the Director. "All new learning involves this provokes a strong attraction."
For desertion, said that almost does not exist, because when they start working with teachers, these teenagers are highly encouraged.
Professor of History, Nancy Torres, who has 18 years of teaching, said that it is an experience that aims to believe in education and believes in the importance, as an element of change. This center has to become a school and education is fundamental, said the teacher.
It also underlined the commitment of the students that he said increasingly concur, although some are even reluctantly, waiting to see what happens. Anyway, the important thing is to come, stay and defend their classroom and class time, Torres said, adding his impression that "we are giving a lesson to us too."
After nine years of absence from this proposal, we fly to bet on it, but this time she came to stay, the professor predicted.
Moreover, the Director of the Cologne, Isabel Bissio, acknowledged that there is overcrowding in the facility, but said that it is not overcrowding.
Anyway, he said that after the adoption of the new code, got the number of children who enter each site, but admitted that it is beyond the capacity of households.
According to statements to the media INAU President Victor Giorgi, this program will, in turn, reduce the hours of closure and improve living conditions in the most troubled homes.
Young, faculty and staff were excited about this important step in the promotion and restoration of the rights of juvenile detainees.
sources: daily La Republica , El Espectador 1, 2 and Presidency
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