The CCOO Teaching Union of Córdoba and the AMPAs of different centers have gathered this Wednesday, May 26, to denounce the closing lines in public schools from the province. The protest was held at the doors of the Hernán Ruiz school in the Cordovan capital, a center “that will be affected by the cutting of classrooms that the Education Delegation intends to carry out for the next academic year.”
The General Secretary of this union, Francisco Cobos, said during the rally, which was also joined by some families from the center and the members of the management team of the same led by its director, Rafael Castro, that “it seems to us an aberration that there is families unable to enroll in the center of their own environment “and that is why we ask the Education Delegation to be brave and maintain the lines it intends to close.
“The Andalusian Government, which claims to be the Government of change, is not and continues to do the same educational clippings that have been done in Andalusia in the last 20 years and we continue to cut back where it hurts the most, in the Infantile classes, in children we take away from their environment and from their friends ”, criticized the union official who recalled that in the In the last four years, almost 400 classrooms have been closed in the province.
In the case of the Hernán Ruiz school, it will lose, if the Education Delegation does not reverse, a Primary line, “when there are eight families that have requested to enroll their children in this school and that due to the closure of a line they will not be able to access it “.
In addition, there are 26 applications for Infants from 3 to 6 years old, so that a family will not be able to access the center either, which has requested the unfolding of this class so that “children who enter school life can do so in a comfortable environment, safe -for the covid issue- and with educational quality “, said the director of the center who insisted that” we have the family demand and for us it is essential not to break the educational thread in this neighborhood, which as always has been the Cruz de Juárez Infant School , Hernán Ruiz school, Grupo Cántico and Ángel de Saavedra ”.
It is not the only center affected by the closure of classrooms. In the case of Córdoba capital, La Aduana and Ál-Andalus, “are other examples of this policy of cuts in public education, which is especially bleeding in the case of the town of Priego de Córdoba, where 11 families are affected by the closure of classrooms “, they have denounced.
“What we are doing is reducing the strength of public education in Andalusia”, Cobos remarked, explaining that in the meeting held yesterday with the Delegate of Education in Córdoba, Inmaculada Troncoso, “we asked him what will happen if there is a rise in the birth rate in the coming years, as is foreseeable and, if the muscle of the public is weakened, are we going to force families to school their children in concerted education and in many cases religious, which do not comply with the canons of families who want to enroll their children in the public?
In this sense, the head of Teaching at CCOO de Córdoba emphasized that “it is time to apply creative mathematics” and “unfold the classrooms that have 26 students, which are out of the norm, because the maximum is 25 ”. CCOO will continue with the mobilizations against the closure of classrooms and to demand the reduction of ratios in the classrooms on June 9 at the Ál-Andalus school.
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