The educational community of the IES Zonzamas affirms that it will make an "act of faith" and "believe the promises" of the Ministry of Education, which last week issued a press release in which it assured that it was acceding to a good part of the requests of the students, teachers and parents of this center. According to them, these promises were transmitted to them "verbally" by the Ministry in several meetings held last week, and now they ask that these commitments be reflected in "facts", in addition to being delivered to them "in writing".
According to these "promises", Education will have completed by September 2017 the works that allow the redistribution of students from Zonzamas, CEIP Los Geranios and CEIP Mercedes Medina, which will become IES, for the 2017-2018 academic year. In this way, the "transfer" of these educational communities, before the implementation of the FP center in Zonzamas, will be "possible as long as there is consensus", they point out.
"We continue to ask, now publicly, for a written document with the signature of the Minister that supports the statements that have been published on the website of the Ministry and in different media, which responds to the 800 signatures presented by the students," they demand. "Their education in the values of democracy and in the organization of our civil society need it," they add.
In addition, they request that this document detail the dates of awarding and execution of the works in their entirety, so that "the construction deadlines for the eight classrooms are specified, which must begin this month of July."
They ask for a 'direct line' with the Ministry through a monitoring commission
On the other hand, the three assemblies of the center (of parents, teachers and students) have expressed in that statement their "disappointment" with the representative designated by the Ministry, assuring that the election of this intermediary has "forced them to resort to other interlocutors on the island".
Faced with this, they request that "all communication" with the Ministry of Education be carried out directly, "in order to facilitate dialogue with those in charge of education who must respond to this situation, promoting consensus, as we believe corresponds with the spirit that is evident in the actions of the Minister."
"In this line, we ask that a monitoring commission be formed, made up of the relevant members of the Ministry, the interlocutors who have facilitated the rapprochement between all the agents involved and the representatives of the affected communities, to coordinate the natural process of dialogue and the search for the necessary consensus," they explain. Finally, they have thanked the mayor of Arrecife for her "concern" for the "solution of this problem".
