The parents of the students of the La Destila school have denounced the "horror" they are experiencing after learning that the works of the new center will suffer a new delay. "They have been pulling our leg for years and what began as a project of illusion and above all of necessity, has become a daily nightmare," they point out.
In a new statement, the parents also complain again about the barracks where their children are currently receiving classes in the San Francisco Javier neighborhood. "While in these times there is talk practically daily about the reconciliation of family life with work life, for us it is very difficult, if not impossible, since the facilities of the current 'school' do not have a dining room or early pick-up or late departure," they criticize.
This, they say, has caused the number of students at the center to have "decreased considerably" since the works began and the students were transferred to the barracks. Regarding these facilities, although they point out that they have been "tried to be conditioned" after the "constant complaints from parents", they criticize that the "last cover-up" has been "an awning for the students to take shelter now that the high temperatures are beginning".
"Don't our children have the right to a public school, close to the family home and with equal conditions as the rest of the children?", ask the parents of the La Destila school, who recall that it was in December 2014 when the old center was demolished, transferring the students to other educational centers in the capital and to the modular classrooms. And "Education assured, at that time, that the works would begin before the end of 2015, but it was not until August 2016 when the work began to build the new educational center. Almost two years in which the land where a new school should resurface became a perfect parking lot in the center of the city," they point out.
"Stop passing the buck and do your job"
Likewise, they refer to the visit that the island director of Education, Mario Pérez, the Councilor for Education of the Arrecife City Council, Inodelvia Torres, the Councilor for Cleaning, Environment and Parks and Gardens, Tomás Fajardo, the management team of the center, and the architect who designed the project made to the works in March 2018. And it is that, after that visit, they point out that Inoldevia Torres stated that the works continued "at a good pace and complying with the established execution deadlines", pointing out that if this continued, the activity in the center could begin "in the 2018/19 academic year".
"In short, after the demolition of the old infrastructures, almost two years passed for the new construction to begin, in which Satocan (construction company) had set a deadline for the delivery of the completed works and for which it requested an extension until April 30, 2019. However, with said month already in progress and just weeks before the delivery, we are informed that said company has requested a new postponement with a date of May 31, 2019", the parents add.
On the other hand, they point out that the mayor of Arrecife, Eva de Anta, convened the educational community of the CEIP La Destila to a meeting in the Plenary Hall of the Town Hall last Tuesday, April 2, "exempting herself from blame for the lateness of the total delivery of the new school".
In said meeting, according to them, De Anta also "regretted" not being able to do "at the same time" the conditioning works of the surroundings of the center that the City Council must carry out. And it is that, according to what the City Council reported this Wednesday, they will not be able to be undertaken until "the contractor and the Ministry finish certain interventions" since, "for security, the builder does not authorize the performance of other works simultaneously".
"Mario Pérez, Eva de Anta, Inodelvia Torres, Satocan, stop passing the buck and do your job. Enough is enough with this degrading situation, of demanding a school in conditions for our children, with the same services as the rest of the schools on the Island", demand the parents of the La Destila school, who demand "an educational center finished and fully conditioned for the beginning of the next school year 2019/2020".
