Madrid teachers take to the streets again due to the inaction of the Ayuso Government: “The movement is unstoppable”

Madrid teachers take to the streets again this Tuesday to demand improvements in the public education. They denounce the lack of resources, the increasing segregation in the centers and the large “classroom ratios suffered by all educational stages”, as explained to Public Alicia de Riosspokesperson for the Less Educational Assembly. Among their main requests is the reduction of teaching hours and a brake on preferential financing of private and concerted education.

He October 29 A strike will take place that will last all day. Furthermore, at 5:30 p.m. the march will begin from Atocha until the Gate of the Sunorganized by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and Less Lessons. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education, Sciences and Universities wants to propose a new proposal in relation to working conditions, but nothing is yet known about whether or not it contemplates the reduction of teaching hours.

The situation has worsened since the “cuts that occurred in 2011-2012 in Madrid with the consequent dismissal of 3,000 teachers“, according to del Río, who also points out that the Ministry of Education prioritizes “economic criteria to reduce public spending and be able to divert more funds to the private and subsidized system,” making the public system increasingly precarious and with less support staff.

As stated Ana Vicenti In a press release released by the Less Teaching Assembly, “the growth” of the movement “is unstoppable and new assemblies are registered every day,” thus reflecting the deep discomfort of the teachers with the management of the Ministry of Education. For this day of strike, decentralized concentrations have been scheduled for various neighborhoods and municipalities of the Community of Madrid, which will take place in Vallecas, Vicálvaro, Oporto, Usera/Villaverde, Hortaleza, Rivas, the Corredor del Henares, Getafe, Fuencarral. El Pardo and the center of Madrid between 10:00 and 15:00, which will be followed by a demonstration at 17:30 in Atocha.

The last demonstration organized on September 25 by Menos Lectiva was described as a “success”which led to the duplication of teaching assemblies, going from 80 to 149. “The growth is unstoppable and new assemblies are registered every day,” declares Vicenti.

Del Río explains that “Madrid is one of the most segregated cities in Europe and the OECD”, and that they are aggravated by the system of competition between centers and the bilingual education model, which in many cases has contributed to greater division. among the students. As a result, middle and high-income families opt for charter or private schools.

He assures that he “Give a lot of money to the concerted school so that it becomes the school for the middle classes“They are trying to reduce the public so that only the poorest people go and that all the middle classes go to the concerted one,” he concludes.

The inspiration of Menos Lectiva

This movement is gaining momentum again since “Green Tide“, who more than a decade ago denounced this same problem publicly. Alicia del Río relates that “when he did not achieve what he proposed, it was a very hard blow and there has been a generation of teachers who have been traumatized by this defeat until they have the new generation has arrived. It’s like an erosion of saying, we’re going to fight for the public.”