The addresses of almost, for now, 300 public educational centers in Catalonia have signed a manifest set, which will be sent in the next few days to the Minister of Education, Josep González-Cambray demanding “measures, not words” to provide schools with more resources. “More budget and more teachers to be able to deploy an inclusive and quality education”, summarize the addresses consulted by this newspaper, who affirm that they are exhausted by the “bureaucratic, labor and management overload never seen before”. A situation that they harshly attribute to the “lack of planning and of resources”.
The state of mind and the concern they feel have led them to want to transfer Cambray that the situation “is unsustainable” and “it cannot be perpetuated in time”. Warn that there is “royal risk” that the public education system “collapse” and “it is not possible to guarantee the functioning of the public school with minimum quality standards”.
“Without resources, an inclusive and quality school cannot be guaranteed. Personnel are needed to provide personalized education and attend to diversity. There is a lot of diversity in the classrooms, beyond students with special needs. One teacher per classroom cannot They are overwhelmed,” says a director.
“As directorates we are fully aware of the reality that exists in our classrooms and we consider that for the proper functioning of the public school that the Department wants to promote, it is necessary demand real changes and effective in the points that we have already been transferring on other occasions”, they point out in the manifesto. Points that are: the deployment of the decree of the inclusive school, improve teacher templatesmore hours of coordination to plan the educational action and deploy the new curricula, the management of the ruling of the TSJC that obliges to teach 25% of Spanish in the classrooms and adapt the training proposed to the teachers, many of which, point addresses are not suitable.
The change of the calendar, although it is already official, continues to worry the centers for organizational purposes. “Immersed in the planning of the 22-23 academic year, all the centers are experiencing a bureaucratic, labor and management overload never seen beforewithout having any additional resources on the part of the Administration”. And they denounce that “the exhaustion and tension of the entire educational system”, and here they include not only the schools, but also the technical teams of the Territorial Services of the Department and staff of the EAP and dining services, “derived from the lack of planning and resources is already evident and very worrying.”
Fear that the conflict will fester
In Catalonia there are more than 5,000 schools between public and private nursery, primary and secondary schools. Of these, more than 3,000 are public. Among the 300 that have signed so far are the Ferran Sunyer, 9 Graons, Diputació, Tabor, Fructuós Gelabert schools, or the Viladomat, Ernest Lluch, Caterina Albert or Francisco de Goya institutes, all from Barcelona. Or the Llorenç Artigas school in Badalona, the Rocafonda in Mataró, Sant Julià in Sabadell, Arnau Cadell in Sant Cugat, Pere Lliscart in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Joaquim Ruyra in Blanes, Santa Coloma in Santa Coloma in Gramenet, Príncep de Viana in Lleida, La Verd de Girona or La Vila de Palamós. And so on to almost 300 centers throughout the Catalan geography.
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Although the calls for strikes are being directed by the unions of teachers –this May 25 there is a new strike called–, the directorates have decided to raise their voices again before the fear that the conflict will become entrenched and there is no progress or improvement. In fact, at this time Educació has withdrawn its last offer and continues with its calendar. “We need measures to be taken and for us to be heard. And we do not see that the conflict is going to get out of hand”, they have pointed out from the directors, who see a “distancing” between the schools and the Department.
It is not the first time so far this year that the addresses are publicly pronounced. Last March, in an unprecedented gesture, they gave open support to the March 15 strike. Already then they demanded more resources and made Cambray ugly by the lack of planning and dialogue.