2023-05-12 12:26:22
Families from the Colón school, in Córdoba capital, have gathered this Friday, May 12, at the gates of the center to request the recovery of the 3-year-old Infant line, suppressed for the 2022-23 school year. According to the data provided, the applications for the next course amount to 36, for which reason they consider the return of the second line “more than justified”, to endorse the defense of “public education” and the “freedom of choice” of the families.
In the same way, the Association of Mothers and Fathers of Los Jardines de Colón students, attached to the Colón school, has expressed its disagreement and discomfort with the Territorial Delegation of Educational Development and Vocational Training and University, Research and Innovation in Córdoba for ignore the letters and writings presented in the month of April by this association and by many families of the school, in which he insisted on this same request.
During the concentration, the families have explained that the 36 applications received for the 2023-24 academic year they assume that “those 36 families have expressed their desire to enroll their sons and daughters” in the Colón school, which they recall, “historically” has had one more line of 3-year-old Infants, “with some very specific characteristics that make it special”.
“We must not forget that Colón is one of the schools with the most applications in the entire downtown area to start the 2023-24 academic year, given its excellent location, its extensive facilities, its technological resources, its own-managed kitchen, being a pioneer center in the city of Córdoba by establishing sign language as a curricular subject and taking into account that it is one of the city’s historic public centers“, have stated the families, who add that it has been named one of the 100 best public centers in Spain in the Micole 2023 ranking, occupying position 44 and one of the 25 best in Córdoba, occupying seventh place.
In their petition, the families claim their “right to choose the center” they want, in this case “a public center”, as they have made known with their applications, from which it is extracted that “it has been preferred choice” for those 36 families. Likewise, the families explain that the Colón school “is one of the few public centers in the area that could practically cover two units, which could also be completed during the course because it is the center where the children are usually educated. children of families who experience a transfer with the course already started”, which would allow filling “the few vacant places” that would remain if there were two units.
In the same way, they point out that with the reopening of the second line of 3-year-old Infants, “those excluded should not be referred to other centers, since their priority choice has been Colón.” They also point out that taking into account that the ratio at these ages is set at 20 students per classroom, the center would have “covered 36 places of the 40 that could be offered“, although they point out that “it would also be a good time for the Educational Development Delegation to demonstrate that the much-requested and repeated drop in the ratio becomes effective to advance the quality of educational teaching.”
In the argument to recover the classroom, the families insist on the very particular characteristics” that the Colón school has, since “it is a Reference center in the integration of children with hearing disabilitiescounting their classrooms with sign language co-tutors”. They also point out that “already in their day, the elimination of a line meant a reduction in the possibilities of growth and future of the center, for which reason we demand the recovery of that lost line to to be able to continue being elected by families who defend inclusive, committed and quality public education”.
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