Confirmed! Boys and girls from the country return to classrooms this Monday, January 12

Published at: 09/01/2026 12:29 PM

Next Monday, January 12, classes will restart across the country, the Minister of Education, Héctor Rodríguez, confirmed this Thursday.

“This year's Second Pedagogical Moment begins and we are aware that we must guarantee the fundamental right to education. Education makes us free, reading expands our understanding of the world, the company of others regulates us and routines give us certainty,” Rodríguez said in a video released on his Telegram channel.

In this regard, he asked the whole of society for “unity, collaboration and discipline”, to protect school communities and “reach out to each of the families that are part of them”, after referring to the attacks of American troops last Saturday on the country, in which President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were kidnapped.

In this regard, the minister emphasized that no country and no family “deserves to go through the uncertainty and terror that has been tried to establish” in Venezuela. “What our children and adolescents experienced, their mothers and fathers, is absolutely despicable and unjustifiable, because the war has no justification and we Venezuelans are a people of peace, we have always been and will always be,” he said.

For this reason, he called on mothers, fathers, teachers and the family in general to “contain, calm and listen” to each child and adolescent and to be available to validate the feelings derived from the events of January 3 and offer them tools to manage them in the best way.

From teachers, Rodríguez asked for “solidarity, humanity, compassion, empathy, very high professionalism, and very high capacity” to support and guide children and young people. “We know how to do it and we must do it, because our first task is to protect every boy, every girl, every young person. It is the school, the high school, as well as the family, the safest place for them, the place of love, the place of possibilities, the place where they can express their concerns and where by nature they will find answers, interaction, human connection,” he argued.

Mazo News Team