Yesterday a visit of the Director General of Educational Planning and Human Resources, Enrique Ujaldón, who accompanied the mayor, Marcos Ortuño, and the Councillor for Education, Remedios Lajara was held, they held a meeting with management and the school AMPA Alfonso X, which confirmed the classroom of child maintenance that was originally scheduled to close.
For Raul Gallego, councilor Citizens municipal group, "The visit was accompanied by what we consider bad news, because everything is reduce public infrastructure in our municipality can not be good and talking about education even less. And this is exactly what it has happened with the closure of two additional classrooms for children. and all with the approval of the mayor and the councilman of education Remedios Lajara ".
Citizens, loss of education places in our city, which already warned earlier this year, has a simple solution, "simply lowering the ratio and leave between 19 and 20 students. However, preferred to leave it at 22, the absence of last-minute enrollments possibly leave the ratio at 23 -24, "said Gallego.
Also, the municipal group Citizens considered very serious loss of teachers and support teachers that will come in these centers because, even in the unlikely event that next year the classroom recover, losing the classification of colleges double line , the support will be reduced in the higher grades, especially in primary education.
This will lead, in turn, lower part of the subsidies they receive, they depend on lines that have enabled.
For Raul Gallego, "this is what results from what we consider wrong and pernicious decision to eliminate classrooms in Yecla, only by pure economic criteria. From citizens we wonder formation or public health can be addressed based on criteria economic profitability? And if so, why not think of this criterion when we build a desolating we currently costs 57,000 € a day or an airport without planes that costs another 15,000 € a day? with good governance, good management is demonstrated there are more than enough to ensure a quality education without cuts "resources.
Faced with this "big picture" Citizen Yecla maintains that not resigned with the decision taken by the Ministry of Education and is available to those affected centers and AMAPAS to continue fighting for the maintenance of these public infrastructures.
"We are convinced that there are other solutions that also deepen the quality of teaching, obviously not only criteria of economic profitability," says Gallego.
Source: Ciudadanos Yecla