A demonstration called by the Platform for Public Education took to the streets of central Valencia this Saturday to denounce the “forgetting” of educational centers and “Disastrous and zero” management by the Consell after DANAwhich devastated several villages in the province of Valencia, and demands the resignation of the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, and the Minister of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment, José Antonio Rovira.
Under the slogan “Rovira i Mazón resigns!”, thousands of people – 5,000 according to the Government Delegation of the Valencian Community – left the San Agustín square in Valencia a few minutes after 6 p.m. The participants chanted slogans such as “The president, in Picassent”, “Escoles sense fang”, “La llengua no es tapa”, “Escola enfangada, Conselleria amagada”.
Likewise, they carried signs saying “Volem tornar aclass”, “Per un cole lliure de fang”, “Rovira go home”. Mazón is going home’, ‘Ara vos agranarem a vosaltres’, ‘Are you waiting for the fairy godmother? Enough stories, and they saw each other several quadribar flags with a black bow as a sign of mourning and the participants with green t-shirts with the motto “Estimem l’escola public”.
In statements to the media before starting the march, the member of the management of FAMPA-València, José Manuel Casermeiro, criticized the “disaster” and the “rush” of the Ministry of Education for “giving the order” to open school centers affected by DANA. while “it did not put in place the means of cleaning” or “disinfection” to leave the installations in good condition after the passage of the storm.
In fact, he assured that it should be the families and the teachers themselves, in addition to the volunteers, who were responsible for cleaning the centers and warned: “You cannot return to a study center if you do not don’t do it. has been disinfected and, if not, a report has been made that the conditions in which it is opened are safe and hygienic.
“He seems aware of his poor manufacturing”
And he insisted on demanding Rovira’s resignation and maintained that Dana’s leadership “has accentuated his very poor management and lack of organization.” He also denounced “the closure of classrooms” and the lack of school transportation. “It’s all so improvised that one seems aware of the poor quality of the work,” he said.
The Secretary General of the Education Federation CCOO-PV, “the right way to overcome in an effective and empathetic manner this disaster crisis like those that occur in wars.” In this sense, he expressed the “indignation” of the educational community because, he emphasized, “there is no attention as it should be” on the part of the Consell.
“From CCOO-PV we tell you that We will be vigilant about what the calls for tenders will be. of what reconstruction means,” he said, predicting that “education centers will be set up in prefabricated classrooms and tenders will be called for cleaning or other things.” And we are going to be vigilant,” he insisted, while emphasizing that “they are not wrong” because “this week, we learned that hand-picked calls for tenders were being launched to companies already tainted by corruption by Gürtel.
For his part, Xavi Angulo, member of the UGT-PV, denounced the fact that teachers affected by the damage of October 29 “did not benefit from permit coverage that would allow them to respond to immediate needs of affected populations. “They have lost their house, they have lost their vehicles, they will no longer be able to move, they have suffered material but also human losses,” he maintained, while affirming that “imminent aid was necessary to the part of the Department which has not arrived”. “
In this regard, he stressed that “special permissions” were necessary, because, he stressed, “the working conditions of teaching staff are also important”, as well as the conditions of students “in terms of psychology” . “It is very important that there is also immediate planning on the part of the Department to respond to all the needs of the educational community,” he insisted, assuring that the union “will continue to monitor all measures that are taken”.
“This attacks the right to education”
The spokesperson for Intersindical, Beatriu Cardona, stressed that this demonstration was called before the dana and was scheduled for last November 16. “We had various reasons -to call him-, but unfortunately, DANA added one more“It is the disastrous management that has been made of our educational centers, with forgetfulness on the part of the advisor”, he censored, regretting that “it is the educational community, the families and the volunteers who cleaned the centers. to “try to prepare them for the students.”
“To this lack of management and involvement of the Ministry, of not sending professional cleaning companies, are added the reasons that we already had before such as the poorly named law of educational freedom, which limits the use and teaching of Valencian in our schools and which “From our point of view, this violates the right to education of boys and girls”, he criticized, adding that this march also protests against “the cuts in the education, because the models signed at the end have been cut”. Botany.
In this regard, he stressed that the TSJCV issued a decision that the ministry “does not respect”, because “In two years, it was supposed to create 6,000 jobs and this was not done”. “These positions are very important, not only in normal times, but also after the dana, since they were workplaces intended to increase tutoring, attention to students with specific educational needs and to cover the replacement of teachers on sick leave,” he said. concluded.
