Parents Association in Córdoba Rejects Ministry’s Decision to Eliminate School Unit

The Association of mothers and fathers El Caimán of the Santuario school de Córdoba has shown its rejection of the provision of units of the Ministry of Education that “has not given us the opportunity to try to complete a second unitwhich, with 29 3-year registrations” and have stressed that, despite this, “do not increase the line that they closed last year”.

The families have assured that “family preferences should be taken into account when choosing a public center in the areadespite the low birth rate, and comparing the significant increase in applications compared to the previous year”.

In the opinion of the collective, this measure is a “attack on a global strategy of cruelty against the public school, which is repeated year after year in different schools”. “.

The association has added that “the arguments that the Education Delegation gives us they lack logic since they are a priori and random eliminations”. “If they really responded to the much preached drop in the birth rate, these eliminations of lines would proportionally affect the subsidized private school supported with public funds, something that does not happen, there are the data”, have added.

As an example, they have recalled that the case of this educational center “has been shown to be in sufficient demand and whose elimination we understand responds to exclusively mercantilist and savings criteria of those who do not see public education as an investment but as an expense”.

Along the same lines, they have indicated that “this elimination of lines clashes head-on with the spirit of the last two Andalusian educational decrees.” To this end, they have recalled the late Minister of Education, Juan José Imbroda, who assured in his day that “it is about guaranteeing the freedom of choice of center and avoiding the arbitrariness of a lottery when the demand is greater than the supply of these schools (…) admitted that it will be the demand that decides which public or concerted units could be suppressed if the school population continues to decrease as it has been up to now”.

For this reason, they have reported that they are going to initiate contacts with “all those active forces in defense of public schools in general and against the elimination of lines in particular to create synergies in the centers, the forums and the street and reverse this situation”.

“Education unions, associations of mothers and fathers, and families, political parties, the Andalusian Ombudsman, affected neighborhood groups, etc. will be contacted shortly to propose alternatives and an effective roadmap against this mercantilist vision of Education “, have added.