La Salle Florida

The Instituto La Salle Florida is an Argentine private school founded in 1934 and located in Florida, Vicente López Partido, Buenos Aires Province. Although it is managed by lay people, it belongs to the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation created by French priest and educational reformer Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in 1680.

Originally established as a boys-only school, nowadays both male and female students attend classes. It offers early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education.

In recent years, the school has organized a marathon in order to raise funds for charitable purposes.^[1]

Notable alumni

Carla Rebecchi,^[2] Argentine field hockey world champion
Hernán Crespo,^[3] Argentine association football Olympic silver medalist
Claudio Bonadio,^[4] Argentine judge
Florencia Kirchner,^[5] daughter of former Presidents of Argentina Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Matias González Pena,^[6] outstanding chemist representative of Argentina at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 2017, held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Olympic Bronze Medalist.

References

^ "Para dar una mano" [To give a hand]. La Nación (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. 13 September 2010. Retrieved 12 February 2013. El Instituto La Salle-Florida anuncia la realización de la VIII Maratón Solidaria Lasallana, que tendrá lugar el próximo sábado 2 de octubre.
^ "Carla Rebecchi, la diosa del hockey" [Carla Rebecchi, the goddess of hockey]. ¡Hola! (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2013. Fue precisamente por su velocidad que casi abandona el hockey para dedicarse al atletismo, mientras cursaba en el colegio La Salle de Florida.
^ "La vidriera" [The showcase]. La Nación (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. 11 June 2005. Retrieved 12 February 2013. La ceremonia será en la capilla del colegio La Salle, de Florida, donde estudió el delantero, y el festejo para 300 invitados, en Palermo, muy cerca del hipódromo.
^ Zommer, Laura (28 November 2010). "Claudio Bonadio, el juez que desvela a Moyano y a Jaime" [Claudio Bonadio, the judge who keeps Moyano and Jaime awake]. La Nación (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 12 February 2013. Estudió en el colegio La Salle de Florida y se recibió de bachiller en 1973.
^ Vázquez, Luciana (5 July 2011). "La doble moral de los políticos en materia educativa" [The double standard of politicians in educational matters]. La Nación (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 12 February 2013. Y cuando se instalaron en Buenos Aires, el elegido fue el Instituto La Salle de Florida, un colegio privado y religioso.
^ "Los bronces y el honor".