The government delegate to the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín, today encouraged the students of the 3rd Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) of the Institute of Secondary Education (IES) "Calderón de la Barca" of Pinto to be "attentive and vigilant" in the face of machista attitudes and to be "brave" to recriminate and correct them, even if they come from a friend.
It has done so within the framework of the talk on equality, sexual discrimination and gender violence given by the Civil Guard in this educational center within the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of Security in Educational Centers and their Environments, a tool that provides schoolchildren with “mechanisms” with which to know how to act and detect “any situation that is uncomfortable or that may be dangerous”.
The government delegate has stressed that gender violence, which is “a very important issue, a reality that exists throughout society, and also in adolescence”, goes beyond when a murder occurs, as in the last two confirmed cases of Madrid and Barcelona, and includes a set of attitudes that must be identified and to which we must react with courage. “Be brave not to laugh the joke at the machista comment on duty, to recriminate the friend who is not funny and to correct attitudes that sometimes escape us all,” he stressed.
The purpose of the Master Plan is to provide information to children and adolescents on the main security problems, tools to prevent conflicts and prevent them from becoming victims of all kinds of crimes. For the development of these activities, the educational centers have the Civil Guard, the National Police and the Municipal Police of Madrid, as well as the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation, which offer talks on school harassment, the Internet and social networks, addictions (drugs, ludopathy, new technologies), youth gangs, racism, discrimination and intolerance, sexual orientation (LGTBI) or violence against women.