The Student Families Association (AFA) of the Auditorium School of Barcelonaha denounced that you won’t be able to start classes next September 6 due to the delay of more than a month in the construction works of its new center located on calle Zamora, in the district of Sant Martí. To date, the AFA has not received “no alternative for the students” and they do not know if they will be able to start the beginning of the course normally.
For now, the children have been teaching in a building on Almogàvers street, where the next course is expected to be installed other institution: the Institute of Audiovisual Techniques and the Show of Barcelona. Families complain that more than 300 students between three and seven years they will be without location alternative to continue their studies.
Hello @consorciedubcn. The works of the Escola Auditori paint badly and we don’t believe them anymore. Volem l’escola que ens vau promisere. Are we tired of delays and plans B, C and Don… where will we start the course? In this solar? pic.twitter.com/zUmivmQ4KR
— School Revolt – AFA Escola Auditori (@afa_auditori) July 7, 2023
being a public schoolstarted working on barracks located in a civic center in 2018 with the promise of the Barcelona Education Consortium of which the work definitively would be terminated in three or four years because “the provisional location could not absorb more students beyond this term” according to the AFA.
The families affirm that since its inception it has gone expanding in modules within a insufficient solar. Also, with a location undesirable for childrensince the enclosure is surrounded by adjoining works and businesses nightlife that have led to dangerous situations such as heavy tools dropped in the schoolyard and even a three-year-old girl finding an ecstasy pill.
Forecast of the works of l’@escolaauditori according to the @consorciedubcn:
Phase 1: Ground Floor finished around June 10-15.
Phase 2: 2nd floor. 24 juliol mòduls instal·lats.
Phase 3: floor 2. From 9 to 28 August.Fact: on July 11, això is a solar gairebé buit! What fem??? pic.twitter.com/cp9wCGtKjx
— School Revolt – AFA Escola Auditori (@afa_auditori) July 8, 2023
Also, the management team from school too the Mint the situation arguing that creating an educational community from scratch is already complicated, but adding the “security problems” and the “unkept promises by the Administration” generates even more “strain“.
Currently, the school accommodates two lines of approximately 25 students per class from Infant 3 to the second year of Primarywith what are 250 children to which will be added the 40 that will join the next academic year 2023-24.
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Faced with this reality, families have reported that they have asked the Education Consortium to “put all the resources necessary human and financial top speed so that the children of the school can start on September 6 with guarantees”.
In the event of a new breach, families have warned that will occupy the space of the new school sitefrom which they will not move until it is finished.