The New Canaries (NC) candidate for Mayor of Tías, Arminda Barreto, and the Secretariat of Social Welfare of the Canaristas in Lanzarote request the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands "to restructure the location of the enclave classrooms on the island so that all students who require these measures can have them under the same conditions as the rest of the students and so that the principle of inclusion included in the Canarian Educational Law is fulfilled."
Last Thursday Yoné Caraballo -NC candidate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa to the Parliament of the Canary Islands-, Daisy Villalba -national secretary of Health and Social Welfare- and Arminda Barreto, as members of the Secretariat of Social Welfare of NC Lanzarote, held a meeting with "a family from La Tiñosa, in Puerto del Carmen, who has requested the Canarian Ministry of Education that their daughter, who is enrolled in the enclave classroom of the CEIP Concepción Rodríguez Artiles in Puerto del Carmen, can move with the rest of her classmates from the regular classroom, with whom she has established emotional and social ties, to her reference secondary education center."
“The school where the student is enrolled has two enclave classrooms, while, however, the Puerto del Carmen Institute does not have any enclave classrooms. In addition, the only Secondary enclave classroom in the municipality, which is located in the Tías Institute, has its places filled, so the student will have to move to another municipality to continue her schooling,” says Arminda Barreto, NC candidate for Mayor of Tías and component of the Secretariat of Social Welfare of the Canarista formation.
"The family, which has already submitted a letter to the Minister of Education, Manuela de Armas, with the support of more than 500 signatures, has not yet received a favorable response. Their concern focuses not only on the hassle of moving every morning to a center in another municipality on the island, with all that this entails for a person with disabilities and their family, but, above all, on the emotional cost that this will have for the student due to the social bonds that she had managed to establish with great effort with her classmates in the regular classroom in which she spent part of her school day,” says Arminda Barreto.
The NC candidate in Tías assures that “this is not an exceptional case since there are many families with children enrolled in enclave classrooms who face similar realities as a result of an inadequate distribution of them on the island of Lanzarote”. “It doesn't seem logical,” she explains, “that if in the municipality of Tías there are four enclave classrooms distributed throughout the municipality's primary education centers, there is only one Secondary enclave classroom”. In Barreto's opinion, “it also does not seem common sense that there is no primary enclave classroom in the municipality of Yaiza, even though some of the municipality's centers have requested it, and these students have to be enrolled in the municipality of Tías”. “It is also not logical that the same thing happens in the municipality of Haría”, she adds.
For this reason, Barreto, with the support of the Secretariat of Social Welfare of Nueva Canarias in Lanzarote, requests the Minister of Education “to review and restructure the location of these enclave classrooms, enabling the necessary spaces, if necessary, in the centers that are determined so that all students who require to be enrolled in this type of classroom can do so in centers that are as close as possible to their homes and, at least, within their own municipality”.
The Canarista candidate for Mayor of Tías highlights that “all children have the right to education, to a public and quality education and to be enrolled in the centers closest to their home, also and, above all, those with functional diversity, because inclusion is not only a task of the school, but of our society”.
