María Jesús has become relatively famous in Spain – despite herself – this week, even if few people know her name: thousands of people have seen her photo downloading the stairs from school with his son has tracksin Alicante. Arturo is eleven years old and has reduced mobility, but the elevator is broken again and they have no solution.
Every day he has to repeat the maneuver several times, with the effort of carrying 43 kilosin order to overcome the wheelchair barrier and for this student to be able to go to class like his classmates. In fact, theintegration” is based among other things on the fact that he continues his educational cycle like the others and that is why María Jesús agreed that he goes to the classroom on the first floor. “Leave him in the ground floor would have been exclude it” he stressed.
She also has no complaints about the educational center, where she was even offered to carry her son up the stairs, an option she rejects because she does not want to see him at eleven years old and in the arms of another person, not to mention the risk if they suffer a fall.
Moreover, her problem does not concern her alone, because the Association of Mothers and Fathers of Students (AMPA) reported that other students face this handicap of not having the elevator, which has suffered frequent breakdowns for a year. In addition, other parents They also manage to carry their children with reduced mobility to the classroom by the stairs.
In their networks, the AMPA made “a call to the authorities to speed up and implement this much-needed service.
The Ministry of Education has not proposed any intervention because the maintenance of educational centers is municipal competitionand at the town hall, they explained this Tuesday that they had no trace of this latest incident, because they had already repaired the elevator several times.
Apparently the same part was replaced, but it would now be convenient to replace it. substitution complete, which is why the councilor of the area, María Carmen de España, also indicated that she is waiting for an official report to adopt measures and resolve it definitively.
It has not been revealed whether among the temporary solutions, at least the installation of a wheelchair lift, one of those anchored to the wall, could be viable, although as it involves two flights of straight steps, with an intermediate landing, it would be uncomfortable or difficult to approve.
