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El Salvador is down on school discipline. President Nayib Bukele has a former army captain, Karla Trigueros, as education minister. She has inspecting schools wearing army fatigues. Ms Trigueros is also a physician and was head of the country's vaccination logistics during the coronavirus pandemic. One of her first edicts to require all school principals to role models. School heads will required to greet students as they through the school gates each morning. They will also pupils' haircuts and uniforms. Trigueros warned schools that: "Failure to with these provisions...will be a serious breach of administrative responsibility."

The main focus of El Salvador's new education initiative on appearance and conduct. In particular, boys are to have closely-cropped, military-style haircuts, while all students must tidy uniforms and all teachers respectfully. There has mixed reaction to the new policy. A leading teachers' union it a "regrettable militarization" of schools. It was concerned that the country was back to the days of military dictatorship. It said: "We are concerned that the already [endemic] abuses of power against students will ." However, many parents supportive of the new rules. One said: "That's how you children out from a young age."