The families of CEIP Guenia have denounced that they find themselves in "a bureaucratic battle" against the Educational Inspection and the Territorial Directorate of Education of Lanzarote for what they assure is a "programmed and unjustified dismantling of their public resources". Thus, they have denounced that they feel "fed up with being forced" to "defend the dignity of the school", at the end of each school year.
In a statement sent to La Voz, these families have indicated that for the next school year 2026/2027, the Ministry of Education "intends to abolish two complete units at once (going from seven to five). The families consider "this aggression to public education unacceptable" based on three arguments:
- No loss of students: the numbers don't add up. The Ministry intends to justify the cut based on demographics, but the reality of the school contradicts it. The enrollment at CEIP Guenia remains completely stable: since the students who finish their stage and go to high school are compensated by the entry of new three-year-old students (plus enrollments in other grades). "There are not fewer children; there is less political will to keep them in dignified conditions," they have criticized.
- "Absolute" lack of medium-term vision and "instability." Families call the Administration's management "absurd and inefficient." These parents have pointed out that "due to regulations that prevent mixing courses of different cycles as well as creating mixed groups of more than 20 students," it will force the following school year (2027/2028), the Administration itself to be forced to "reinstate both eliminated units" barely a year later when legal ratios are exceeded. Thus, they have highlighted that this policy of temporary "patches" "only generates structural instability that is profoundly detrimental to the school's pedagogical project."
- "Definitive blow to the quality" of teaching and inclusion. The swift cut in teaching staff will involve merging students into mixed classrooms (combining 3rd with 4th and 5th with 6th). Families recall that the previous experience with these mixed groups was "pedagogically negative." Furthermore, they have called the complexity of these classes for the next school year "extreme," as they will have numerous students with Special Educational Support Needs (including diagnoses of ASD, ADHD, ALCAIN, and referrals to mental health). "With fewer teachers and the loss of the Secretary in the management team, the individualized attention and inclusion that LOMLOE so strongly champions become a dead letter," they have denounced.
An abandoned school: a whole year without a janitor
In addition to the loss of teaching resources, they have denounced "the physical abandonment of the facilities." Families publicly denounce that CEIP Guenia has had to endure "a full school year without the figure of a janitor."
"Beyond who is directly responsible for the position, the reality is that the absence of this staff has caused an evident and worrying deterioration of the school due to the lack of basic daily maintenance," they added.
"We are tired of our children's education depending on offices that do not know the reality of the school and of having to demand the basics year after year as if we were asking for a favor," the parents' collective has stated.
Therefore, they have demanded an urgent review from the Insular Directorate of Education and the definitive suspension of the elimination of units before the final staff is approved, as well as the immediate provision of all material and personnel resources that the CEIP Guenia deserves.