Rodríguez on school violence: we must go beyond the facts and look for causes to address them

Published at: 30/01/2025 03:28 PM

This Thursday, the Minister of Popular Power for Education, Héctor Rodríguez, highlighted the role of schools in the formation of citizens with values, so he urged teachers to know the environment of children and young people beyond school and thus lead them to a society that is respected and recognized.

During the installation of the second phase of the National Plan for Teacher Training, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Education, in Caracas, Rodríguez assured that in cases of school violence, “we must go beyond the facts and look for causes to address them.”

“Each child is a world and each school is a world and we are responsible for knowing what is behind the violence of that child who comes to school to mistreat his classmates. A well-trained and prepared teacher is able to detect these problems and solve them in the same school, because almost always violence against children is because there is a violent environment,” he argued.

Rodríguez asserted that saying: “I was raised with a slap from time to time and nothing happened to me,” cannot be a justification for child abuse, because surely that generation carries some trauma. “We're not good. We have a thousand traumas as a society, with a thousand doubts, with a thousand fears that we don't know how to process, and we can do better and have an increasingly loving education,” he emphasized.

Mazo News Team