The Minister of Education of Panama, Lucy Molinar, commented on an incident in which three students from the Centro Educativo Altos de San Francisco school in La Chorrera were involved in a fight. She stated that the ministry has imposed sanctions on them, and they have agreed to respect them. "These sanctions will remain in place, but we will use them as an opportunity... they will become leaders in their school and change their environment," the head of the ministry predicted. The incident caused a significant public reaction. Even Panama's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had to issue a statement addressed to the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who on his X account wrote: "No society has a future if students disrespect their teachers." "We have sown like this in El Salvador in the past, and we all saw the bad harvest that brought us. If we want a different future, we must sow differently, and for that we need discipline," the president expressed. Molinar remains optimistic and believes that such a disgraceful incident involving three students will help all the female students at the school "become leaders." The minister needed a "long and detailed conversation" to reach that conclusion. The ministry clarified to Bukele and to the general public that the situation did not involve any teacher, but was "an isolated and disgraceful act perpetrated by three students, which is already being addressed by the specialized team of the Ministry of Education of Panama." It should be recalled that these students became a trend on social media after a video was published in which it initially appeared that two of them were assaulting a teacher. "This negative event will become a springboard for great things, not only in their lives but in the lives of those around them," Molinar assured. "Yesterday (Monday) they were in my office, we had a long and detailed talk, and listening to them has been very important for me," Molinar expressed.
