For some it has not been easy to separate from their parents in the return to school. This course starts with strikes and protests about the conditions that some teachers and students have had to face at the end of the holiday.
With the reflective vest, helmet, and goggles: first day of school in Getafe. “This school, instead of a school is a work,” they say. An unfinished work. Because Miguel de Cervantes, instead of children loaded with school material, workers come loaded with construction material.
“We have a dining room that will be saturated because they have not built the new dining room, we do not have a gym because they have not built it, we are missing six classrooms because they have not built all the classrooms,” explains Sara, mayor of Getafe.
Some 200 students without a classroom will teach in the hallways. Those of another school in there should have started in April and did it in August. So on one side worker, on the other children. Repeated work material thrown in the yard and children without classroom.
In another center, silence: first day of classes without children, they do not start the course because there are no counselors. “Last year the school had a third of students with needs,” say some of the parents.
In Cantabria, the children are in the yard because they do not have teachers. They are protesting in front of the Ministry of Education. More than 60% have supported the strike against the partial elimination of the reduced working hours of September and June.
In Orense they protest because there are more children in a classroom for children than the 25 allowed. In Alicante at the school, 160 children will begin classes in barracks, which are already two-storey. Education says that it has been invested, but that in four years, it does not give time to everything.