The deputy of the Nationalist Parliamentary Group (CCa), Cristina Calero, has reminded that it is "urgent to address the situation of the Special Education Center of Lanzarote." Calero has asked in the Plenary of the Parliament of the Canary Islands about the improvement actions that will be carried out in special education centers and enclave classrooms in terms of infrastructure.
In the question addressed to the Minister of Education, the nationalist deputy recalled that "diversity is an implicit component in society and the classroom, it is not an exception." According to Cristina Calero, "all people are different, we have different needs and different learning rhythms, so educational policies have to be flexible and adapt to those specific needs." Likewise, Calero stressed that the greatest example of this attention to diversity "are the enclave classrooms and special education centers, which accompany those who need it most."
The deputy of Coalición Canaria pointed out the importance of attending to diversity "putting students, their needs and particularities at the center of educational policies." To achieve this goal, Calero recalled the need to have professionals who can perform their duties in adequate conditions to care for students who need it most, students with special educational needs.
Also with resources that eliminate barriers or promote their personal autonomy and educational learning and spaces without barriers of any kind, both for professionals, specialists, teachers and students.
In reference to this last aspect, the deputy of Lanzarote has asked about the actions planned in terms of infrastructure for students with special educational needs. In this sense, she has referred to the special education center, Virgen de los Volcanes, the only special education center in Lanzarote located in Tahíche. "A Center that has an impeccable trajectory and roots but needs expansion," Calero pointed out.
Calero detailed that this Center "welcomes twice the number of students than the capacity for which it was initially designed, requests for new registrations continue to arrive and there is no more space, neither for professionals to develop their work properly, nor for students who require those spaces for their learning and personal development."
A circumstance, Cristina Calero stressed, that needs a response from the ministry "because the students of Lanzarote who need it most cannot wait any longer."
