The Nueva Canarias and PSOE groups have denounced this Tuesday the problems caused in the Canary Islands educational centers during the last episode of high temperatures, although the regional government has defended that the start of the course has developed with total normality and with hardly any incidents.
In an appearance requested by Nueva Canarias and Partido Popular, the deputy of NC-BC Carmen Hernández has stressed that the heat wave "is a serious issue" and has recalled that it is the second year that the regional Minister of Education, Poli Suárez, faces this issue.
"Classrooms turned into saunas and children who have started the course sweating like chickens, while the responsibility of activating the protocol is transferred to the management teams of the centers," Hernández complained, who recalled that these teams already bear a lot of management burden every start of the course.
Hernández has also requested an island-based plan for the climatic adaptation of all the centers of the Canary Islands and has accused the Canarian Government of not having foresight or political will.
She has also denounced the hundreds of temporary workers who "have been left on the street" and the "unacceptable images" that have occurred in some centers of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where students have had to spend the night in the vicinity of the centers to get a place in sanitary FP.
In his turn, the counselor Poli Suárez has assured that there were barely half a dozen incidents and that the school year has started with 6,000 fewer students and 700 more teachers.
"Nearly 240,000 students joined the classrooms of 851 educational centers throughout the archipelago. We barely had half a dozen incidents registered in different days, which did not affect the normal development of the teaching activity, resolved immediately and related to last-minute medical leaves, some school transport route or works in the completion phase," Suárez summarized.
He has also complained that they make him guilty of the heat. "I am neither the one who puts the sun nor the rain because that was what I was missing," Suárez has ironically said, who has listed several works of educational centers elaborated in the past without projecting shadow areas in them.
He has also mentioned, in addition to the reduction of ratios, the "solution" to the demands of students with special educational needs, the improvements in infrastructures and the reduction of bureaucracy faced by the teams.
From the PSOE, Marcos Hernández has called not to lose the north saying that there have been no incidents when teachers and families have transmitted complaints, "together with failures in the management of the appointments of non-official personnel."
"How is it going to be a success to attribute all the responsibility to the educational centers when there were centers that suspended classes having the same temperature as other centers that continued?", the deputy has asked.
For Vox, Javier Nieto has questioned both that everything is a chaos, something that he believes goes against the professionalism of the teaching staff, nor that everything is brilliant, and has made several questions regarding the development of new professional training programs.
He has also asked the counselor if he thinks that there is indoctrination in the classrooms and what he thinks of the words of the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso in this regard.
Of the groups that support the Government, Sonsoles Martín, of the Partido Popular, has accused the deputy of Nueva Canarias of "alarmist" and has denied that there were problems, while asserting that the infrastructures, unlike other years, "are in perfect condition."
"Of course there are incidents but the important thing is that they are resolved. There has been normality for the first time since I remember," Martín has pointed out.
In the same line Yonathan Martín has expressed himself, of Coalición Canaria, who has also asked to continue implementing measures that mitigate the consequences of climate change, because "the reality is what it is."
Raúl Acosta, of the Agrupación Herreña Independiente, has valued that the consensus has been sought from the hand of the teaching staff and the effort to lower the ratios, while Melodie Mendoza, of the Agrupación Socialista Gomera (ASG) has highlighted the extension in the non-capital islands of the offer of professional training and has denounced the overcosts of the double insularity.
