“Everything that affects the educational subject of the local government has arrived late or very late and there are even things that are still to come in the middle of the course.”
The Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) in Melilla, Elena Fernández Treviño, in a public appearance, has addressed the data of early school dropout recorded in the city that has associated the abandonment in educational matters suffered by the city during the Government of Mariano Rajoy and has clarified that this rate is being reduced thanks to the investments of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez in infrastructure, the increase of teaching professionals and the implementation of educational programs and resources.
“We have to take into account where we came from”, he pointed out and recalled that ten years ago school dropout had a figure of 23.6%, and that in 2013, when the People’s Party ruled the country with Mariano Rajoy, “we had the highest ratios in the city in history and we had a zero forecast in terms of educational infrastructures”.
For this reason, he has recognized that it is “curious” that the local President, Juan José Imbroda, “goes out now to assess that early school dropout rate and to get his hands on it when we have never heard it talk about when his party was in government at a national level” and education in the city was in a “precarious situation in all senses” while now Education is “a priority”.
Not only that, he has asked him to worry about the Education competencies of the Autonomous City has had enormous delays or, although we are in the middle of the course, it has not yet been launched. Thus, he referred to the book replacement program, “which arrived in January and there were still centers that did not have the textbooks.” “That also results in an efficiency of the education system and in school performance in the centers, which need that material to work,” he said.
Morning Classrooms and Coeducation Agents
Or the Morning Classrooms, especially when “the AMPAs have transferred to us the difficulties that it means to be a month and a half without those Morning Classrooms of conciliation”. “The Morning Reconciliation Rooms that we set up for free with the Ministry of Equality’s Joint Responsibility Plan would have to come to stay but, above all, they would have to work from the first day of school because it makes it dust for families not to have them”, he explained and stressed that families have been forced to “make funambulist balances to reconcile work and personal life”, something “very serious and that directly results in the effort that families make and the interest also of their children to go to school with all the guarantees”.
At this point, he pointed out that “we not only want these Morning Classrooms to exist with the Co-responsible Plan, but we are going to work to increase them and reach all the families that need them in the educational centers,” he said.
And as for the Coeducation Agents, the Provincial Director of Education has shown her surprise after the Deputy Minister of Equality spoke a few days ago that “they are going to enter imminently” despite the fact that we are already in February and that this resource will materialize midway “when they are coeducation agents who are working not only in prevention of gender violence and for and for equality, which is so important today with the figures we have of machista violence that affect students and teachers, but also in the conflict that has a lot to see and results directly in the schools.”
In this regard, he also referred to the need to send the janitors in time and form, since without them “we do not have something as important, in the afternoons, as are extracurricular activities”. “Many of these students that we have in schools cannot afford to pay for an extracurricular activity other than the one offered by their school,” he said.
However, in many cases the educational centers cannot carry out such extracurricular activities “because there are no janitors and the janitors depend on the Autonomous City”. “Every year we have unjustifiable delays or the non-arrival of these janitors as is happening in some centers, which cannot be opened in the afternoon,” he lamented.
Likewise, Fernández Treviño referred to the incorporation of the social integrators of the educational compensation agreement that “we have been waiting for a month in the educational centers and they are not called from the stock exchange we do not know why”
For all these reasons, he has asked Imbroda to worry about dropping out of school “providing all the resources that depend on his Government to the educational centers in time and form”.