A 17-year-old student popped it this Tuesday (18) homemade bomb inside the classroom from a high school in a commune of Santiago, Chile, injuring at least 14 colleagues. Sergio Cordero, director of the Peñalolén education center, told local media that the piece was made from “muriatic acid and aluminum foil that he placed in a bottle.”
Shortly after the explosion, emergency teams, local officials and police rushed to the school. According to Cordeiro, the student responsible for the incident was detained and in a video posted on TikTok, he allegedly learned how to make a homemade explosive.
The municipality of Peñalolén said on its official Twitter account: “Together with our health and human safety teams, we participate and support containment actions. minor injuries due to acoustic and some dermatological traumas“.
Back to school like a bombshell
Before the sad news, I learned that this happened at a college party. @penalolenWe stand with our health and human safety teams that participate in and support containment actions. We are informed about minor injuries due to acoustic trauma and some dermatological injuries.
— Peñalolen (@penalolen) 18 October 2022
After two years of teaching by video call – due to the covid-19 outbreak – return to lessons in Chile marked by cases Anxiety and violence among high school students, teachers, and parents.
Speaking of this school context, Peñalolén mayor Carolina Leitão “understands that what is represented is the violence that permeates neighborhoods. This violence is reflected in different instances of society. We have to deal with that”.
But it seems that the Chilean education model, marked by the privatization of public education and free competition between schools, is in crisis. According to data from the Andean Education Inspectorate, Existing cases of physical and psychological abuse among students in the country increased by 22% Compared to pre-pandemic level.
Source: Tec Mundo
