Overview
- A classroom incident on Monday at Colegio San José in Tandil escalated from disorder over a fallen cellphone and a thrown chair to a student striking the music teacher, who suffered multiple facial fractures.
- The teacher, identified as Gastón Maximiliano Valdez, 37, was taken to Sanatorio Tandil, underwent surgery and remained under medical care as his father filed a criminal complaint.
- The case is being investigated by Tandil’s Unidad Funcional de Instrucción N.º 12 under fiscal Damián Borean on a cause of serious injuries.
- Local teacher unions FUDB and SUTEBA organized a district-wide strike, marches to the Jefatura distrital and delivery of a petition that demands enforcement of convivencia protocols and more protective measures.
- A student-shot video circulated widely on social media and media reports disagree on the attacker’s age and on disciplinary details, while authorities say protocols were activated and an intersectoral working table is planned to address school violence.