Several students from the Argana Alta Infant and Primary School have been left without a "back to school" after the Christmas holidays, due to the accumulated dirt in the classrooms after being painted during the days off. The minimum services in charge of cleaning, due to the strike maintained by the workers, focus only on the bathrooms, so the center's managers have decided to cancel classes.
According to school sources, when the teachers went to the center to resume school activity, "the classrooms were full of dust, the furniture was grouped in the center of the classroom, and the floor was very dirty. It was not possible to teach in them." Faced with this situation, it was decided to call the students' parents to explain what was happening and give them the option of picking up their children, "since some were going to be in the playground and others, grouped in other classrooms."
The center's teachers have cleaned
The mother of one of the affected students explained that "what my daughter's teacher told me is that they have been painting, and that, especially in the classes of children aged 3 and 4, they neither cleaned the classrooms nor tidied up, and it was impossible to have them there". The teacher also commented that "they were tidying and cleaning themselves from eight in the morning," so she decided to pick up her daughter "because so that she is not well cared for or as well cared for as she should be, I prefer her to be with me".
The father of another student explained to La Voz de Lanzarote that the principal had informed him "of an emergency meeting with the territorial director of Education and the mayor of Arrecife, to fix the situation and for things to return to normal tomorrow." He, in particular, was especially outraged since "I have called Health and they have told me that they cannot do anything and that I have to submit a written complaint that they do not know where I have to deliver it in Lanzarote, and in Education they have simply told me that tomorrow it will be resolved."
