After several educational centers throughout the country were threatened by the spread of multiple “intimidating or threatening messages”the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP) released a statement in the last few hours expressing worry for the situation.
“Educational centers are not immune to situations that are experienced daily in interpersonal relationships, in person or virtual. Centers must continue to be safe places for boys, girls, adolescents, as well as for members of the educational community.“, they began pointing out.
In this sense, the ANEP issued a series of recommendations to follow when detecting threats or intimidating messages.
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As to general measuresthe administration suggested the following:
- Notify the authorities of the educational center.
- Collaborate with the instructions given from the center.
- Dialogue to stay calm.
- Do not viralize or encourage the repetition of this type of messages.
After this, the ANEP disclosed more specific recommendations for each of the actors involved:
- Educational center authorities: make the complaint to the Ministry of the Interior.
- Teachers and management officials: accompany from “serenity and listening”, avoiding unnecessary alarms, transmitting “confidence for the students.”
- Families: Invitation to “reflection and awareness” on the “critical and responsible” use of social networks with adolescents.
- Students: invitation to “dialogue and reflect” with their peers and their “adult references” in the face of these situations so that educational centers “continue to be a place of meeting, enjoyment and significant learning.”
Finally, ANEP highlighted the importance of “strengthen care measures”expressed their confidence in the “collective capacity to face this type of situation” and, to close, they recalled that until now educational institutions remain open and in “normal operation”.
