The Association of mothers and fathers of the Nieves Toledo School has called a day of protest on Monday afternoon to demand the recovery of the Mus-E Project, taught in that school for six years. The protest, to which parents, mothers, students or teachers of the center are called, will begin at 4:30 p.m. and will consist of the celebration of dance, plastic arts, theater activities by the artists who taught these activities in the school.
The Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands decided to withdraw this educational project this year "without any explanation", according to the AMPA of Nieves Toledo. The Mus-e project is an education program in values through art. It is developed in fifteen European countries, as well as Brazil and Israel, in 443 schools. It is promoted by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, for its commitment to the values it embraces and the results it obtains in the social, art and education fields.
The withdrawal of this project affects about five hundred children from the school who until now received classes in plastic arts, dance, theater or music. The Mus-E project was only taught in three centers in the Canary Islands.
The artists who taught Mus-E at the Nieves Toledo School have sent a letter to the center in which they express their concern about the withdrawal and are committed "to the success of unifying art and school, even if it requires the utmost effort, commitment and talent." "We believe that the Mus-E school model is the school model of the future, even if the Government of the Canary Islands may now decide to take steps backwards and distance their children from that future," they point out.
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