Despite the threats of continual protests in the wake of the recently highlighted problems at the Playas de Orihuela school, the Valencia regional education ministry has not provided any firm information as to when the 13 year old portacabin school will be replaced by a real building.
The regional deputy of the Compromís political group, Mireia Mollà, raised the question with the government asking for clarification as to when the work on the school will be put to tender.
In response, spokesperson for the education department, María José Catalá, said in writing that “this school is among the new educational infrastructure planned to tender and for that we are doing the preparatory work”.
However, with the announcement that only the “preparatory work” is being done, any kind of resolution is likely to be a long time coming, which the Compromís delegation has described as “unfortunate”, on account of the centre requiring “urgent attention”, made worse by the damage caused by high winds recently, which Mollà says the government “continues to ignore”.
Meanwhile, a delegation from the regional education department, including D.Manuel Tomas Ludeña secretario autonomico de educacion, will be visiting the Orihuela Costa on Monday the 2nd of March. The local government representatives from the Orihuela town hall will be holding a meeting to discuss the problems first hand and see if a common agreement might be reached soon.
However, prior to that meeting, the local government plan to bring the regional delegation to the school to see the problems first hand, at a time which will coincide with the weekly protest taking place.
This will be an opportunity for anybody interested in the value of education, and the legacy of poor investment in the Orihuela Costa to show the regional authorities exactly what their lack of action has meant so far.
The APA parents and teachers association have vowed to continue to demonstrate every Monday morning from 8:30 to 9:15 on the road outside CEIP Playas de Orihuela, and will do so until Fabra and his government fulfil their promises and provide the neighbourhood with what they need, a brick built school that is so very essential to the education and development of the Orihuela Costa’s increasingly abandoned young children.
With those two appointments falling together at the same time and day, Monday the 2nd of March, it is hoped that the opportunity to convey that message will not be missed and the voice of the people be carried back to the department responsible for the problem, albeit from the safe and secure location of Valencia where they reside.
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