Concerned Parents Demand Quality Education and Inclusion for Second-Year Students at Erreniega Public School

The mothers and fathers of the second-year Primary School students at the Erreniega Public School in Zizur Mayor have warned that their fight will continue and that they will not allow that their sons and daughters “receive an education without guarantees, without being treated as they deserve and without being able to exercise their right to a quality and inclusive education.”

Specific, has reiterated the urgent request for “a third classroom since at this time the Department of Education is not guaranteeing an education for our sons and daughters.”

This Monday afternoon, the public school playground held a busy rally in which many fathers, mothers, students, teachers, municipal representatives and people who individually joined the demands of these families participated.

The fathers and mothers of the affected students have defended that “even being within the provisions of educational regulations, which allow classrooms of up to 26 7-year-old boys and girls to exist, we believe that the group’s casuistry should be addressed and analyzed. “The group as a whole and the students as individuals must be attended to.”

For this reason, they assure that “in the conditions in which we find ourselves now, it is not possible to offer quality education and much less will it be possible to detect and cover the needs of these students, students who require, not only educational care, also emotional, relational, health care….”

They insist that “within the group of 51 2nd grade students, at least one has special educational needs. There are also schoolchildren with various medical needs, among which it is worth highlighting type I diabetes mellitus that two of the children suffer from, requiring “continuous monitoring through a sensor connected to a mobile device that emits alarm signals when levels are not adequate and that requires the teacher to take a break to administer insulin or glucose each time it is necessary.”

For the affected families, “reality shows the practical difficulties of this group of schoolchildren in the space, according to which the minors do not have enough space, the noises and voices multiply, creating an annoying sound environment and generating disturbances and stress.” child, with what this means for correct personality development and for correct cognitive functioning and learning development”.

“In the same sense, the refusal to open a third classroom harms the work of the teachers who serve these groups, that is, it undermines the quality of the work of the tutor of each classroom, making it difficult for her to give the due response to the needs of the students and, at the same time, that they comply with the school curriculum and follow the lines and demands of educational innovation. In short, an excessive professional and personal effort, which prevents them from teaching in their integrity and in decent working conditions.” , have highlighted and recognize the great effort of the Erreniega Public School, which “knowing the needs of the group, with its own resources and making a great effort that affects all the students and teachers of the center, is going to split the classrooms with the objective of guaranteeing an equitable education that guarantees equal opportunities for the full development of our sons and daughters”.

“We will not cease in our request, we request that what the new educational and regulatory lines are proposing be put into practice, a quality education for all students, equity that guarantees equal opportunities for the full development of personality through education, educational inclusion, equal rights and opportunities, attention to diversity or flexibility to adapt education to the diversity of aptitudes, interests, expectations and needs of the students”, these Zizur families have concluded.