The Socialist Party denounces the "shameful and ineffective" action of the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands in the management of the episode of high temperatures in the Canary Islands that we have experienced during the current week.
The “Action Protocol for High Temperature Situations”, prepared by the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands transfers the responsibility to the management teams of the educational centers to request the activation of level 3 (high risk) and the application, therefore, of extraordinary or exceptional measures, such as early departure or non-face-to-face activity.
From the Socialist Party they point out that "the situation experienced in these days shows that neither the protocol works, nor does the Ministry of Education either, because in identical adverse meteorological conditions with temperatures reaching 37 degrees, with similar infrastructures, some centers were authorized to take these extraordinary and exceptional measures, while in other centers the students, teaching and non-teaching staff continued in their daily teaching activity, trying to adapt to the situation and suffering inhuman temperatures in enclosures that lack the minimum conditions to cope with the high temperatures experienced."
"We ask this CC-PP government not to evade its responsibility. It should be the Ministry of Education, which has the technical and human resources at its disposal, that declares the different levels and activates the protocols to all the centers that are in the same conditions and with the same high temperatures, that it makes itself available to the management teams, that they accompany them, and do not evade this responsibility, which can cost lives, in their hands, because their functions are different," adds the parliamentarian.
From this political formation they ask the Government of the Canary Islands to "take advantage of the opportunity offered by the next budgets that are being prepared to invest in education, the main bulwark of a society, to comply with the provisions of the Canary Islands Education Law, and invest at least 5% of GDP, instead of lowering it as they did upon their arrival in the Government, because there is still much to invest in adequate infrastructures."
In that sense, the Socialist Parliamentary Group will ask the Minister of Education for explanations in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
