Podemos believes that the Ministry of Education should plan a new Compulsory Education School, up to 4th year of ESO, in Costa Teguise to "cover the deficit of places and infrastructures". This was announced by the councilor of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Jorge Peñas, and the councilor of the Teguise City Council, Elsa Betancort, who held a meeting with the representative of the AMPA Pejeverde of the CEIP Costa Teguise.
In this way, the formation believes "that the problem of overcrowding and prefabricated classrooms would be solved, which affects the quality of teaching and the schooling conditions of the students of the CEIP Costa Teguise."
"From Podemos we have always defended that public education must ensure the most dignified conditions in which that education is imparted," says Peñas, after recalling that the CEIP had capacity for 400 students, and there are 700 enrolled, "so it is overwhelmed in its capacity."
Specifically, they comment from Podemos, in the CEIP Costa Teguise "there are 33 modules, 10 barracks, and the rest is prefabricated work, so parents have been watching for more than a decade how their sons and daughters have to give classes in barracks and prefabricated classrooms, being the school with the greatest infrastructure deficit in the Canary Islands."
"For Podemos public and quality education is a fundamental pillar of the Rule of Law, a condition for the development of the person and a mechanism for social advancement for people who have more capabilities, regardless of their origin or purchasing power of their family unit," say Betancort and Peñas.
Both, who visited the school in situ and were able to talk "about its deficiencies and the demands of the educational community", found that in the CEIP there are "problems such as heat in the classrooms and the risk of falls".
According to Podemos, although the accesses have been improved, "you can still see wooden pallets that function as stairs and are used to walk between the different modules, with a risk of falls, and the installation of fences is necessary, which has only been carried out in the children's area."
"The population of Costa Teguise is experiencing significant growth in recent years. In 2008, when the school was inaugurated, they had just over 6,000 inhabitants, but in just a few years it grew to almost 9,000 and according to the City Council the forecast is that in a few years it will continue to grow to 12,000 residents," they say from the purple formation.
"The school soon became small, but for 14 years the situation has become entrenched and the provisional solution that these modular classrooms represented has lasted over time," they say. For all these reasons, they insist that the future construction of a new Compulsory Education Center "would also respond to the demand for space that is occurring in the Secondary Education Institute in the area."
Finally, they have stressed, as they already did through a motion that has been presented in the Cabildo by Podemos and in different municipalities of the island, that "it is necessary to implement a school health service and hire a school social worker, and more so considering that Teguise does not have a team for minors and families", as well as, as requested by the AMPA, "reinforce the staff with a pedagogy professional and an assistant for Infants."