Opposition parliamentarians questioned the Executive's decision to expedite the discussion of the "Protected Schools" project, which is currently in the Education Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. This decision was announced by the president of the commission, Deputy Sergio Bobadilla (UDI), who appreciated the support for his proposal to extend the loss of the right to free university education to students who have committed crimes. The parliamentarian stated that the aim is to "extend this prohibition on granting any benefits with public resources to students who are sanctioned in higher education, because the original project only considered secondary education.
" "We hope to conclude the process in the commission by Tuesday afternoon at the latest, because the government will expedite the discussion so that we can vote on it in the Chamber on Wednesday. We expect that the parties that claim to be in government will have both feet firmly in La Moneda and not one foot on the street," he added. In response to this situation, Deputy Emilia Schneider (FA) replied that "what we have here is a government that does not want to engage in dialogue, that does not want to listen to those who think differently, and leads us to do unserious work because they want to move forward recklessly, and this must be done based on technical foundations, looking at comparative experience and with discussion.
" Deputy Juan Santana (PS) stated that "the government is being simplistic and irresponsible because the focus of public discussion has been exclusively on free university education, which is making the same mistake that was made with the Safe Classroom project, that is, announcing a flashy measure that does not contribute at all to reducing levels of school violence. " "What we propose to the Executive is to start by not cutting the education budget and to focus on successful school coexistence programs, such as life skills," he added.