This Sunday, the discontent has taken thousands of people to the street through the center of the capital in a large tide of green t -shirts under the motto we save public education. The workers of the pre -university stages have been asking for less teaching hours as in the rest of Spain (23 hours and not 25 in primary) and more human media, and for the first time they have joined university professors and their students, mainly of the Complutense and the Autonomous of Madrid,
This occurs while the Government of Madrid is proud that the region has the highest gross domestic product in Spain -, according to the INE -, but it is also the most racane in the financing of its public education, from zero years to university of adults, while the private business does not stop extending. Protesters have reminded the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, with banners in which she read: “Education is a right, not a business.”
The demonstration has been attended by the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who has affirmed that there is a “brutal” attack on the right to public education. He has compared the Ayuso government with that of the Argentine President, Javier Milei, because he considers that “taxes are lowered to the rich, while destroying public services,” says Efe. She has been accompanied by the Minister of Youth and Childhood, SIRA Irrigation, who has manifested concerned about “the PP cuts policy of Madrid.”
There he was also that he has once again taught outdoo The scissors of Minister José Ignacio Wert in the scholarships and the games for education transferred to the autonomies. But the stage is now very different. “I am especially outraged that this lack of financing, which prevents paying public services properly in education or health, occurs in the middle of an era of economic bonanza,” argues the professor of the Complutense. “Madrid, instead of accompanying the economic cycle, further reduces the budget and suffocates the educational system. There is no more reason than the ideological. It is a project for deterioration of public services so that people go to private ones. ” In the demonstration they have been claimed, as well as more physiotherapists in centers, nurses or social integrators.
In 2021 – – the expense in non -university public education in Madrid was 5,886 euros per student per year, compared to 7,043 of the national average. And in the University the data does not leave Madrid in a better place: in Spain, according to data from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. And it is the autonomy in which families disburse more money because of their children’s university registration ().
“What we have in college is a chronic infinance, what comes now are the cuts and I am trembling because in the department we are one hundred and peak,” says Irene Solbes, academic secretary of the Research and Psychology Group in Education of the UCM. “In other educational stages lower than the best there is not so much infinance problem, but many shortcomings. I, who work in the development of mental health, I see that in the number of guiding by students, which is something fundamental, we are in the queue of Europe ”.
“We have to ask what kind of educational attention we have and if there are means for kids with special educational needs,” he says. He has the feeling that his students will be teachers soon, they tell them about integration programs of this students who require great financing that will never arrive; That tells you an entelechy. This was complained this morning in the march the students with autism, their families and their teachers after a banner: “For an inclusive education. They call it inclusion and it is not. ”
The Serbia Milika Babic, an English teacher in secondary school, does not believe that their teaching hours will go down from 20 to 19 hours, as promises by the Ministry of Education. “It is impossible to meet.” Like the ratios for students. “It is assumed that in the first and second one they went down to 25 and there are classes with 29”, this teacher of the José Luis San Pedro de Tres Cantos Institute continues. All autonomies have decreased these ratios that rose with the economic crisis more than a decade ago. Also in the Language School, they went from 18 to 20 hours and today they manifest.
With Babic his family and Aitana Mingot, also an English teacher but in an institute, the Vallecas Margerit, of high complexity and few media. “I have 120 very disadvantaged students, sometimes they are hospital classrooms. A lot of sensitivity is needed ”, but they barely have a guiding for the entire center.
Madrid is, after the Basque Country, (54%), because families have been betting on concerted teaching (28.8%) – in the new neighborhoods of the capital, public services were not built for years – or private (17, 4%). The nursery checks – 78% of the families that requested a public place in one of the City Council of the capital did not succeed this year – or the higher FP.
Last year there were more students of higher FP in private and concerted centers (50,000) than public (46,319). According to workers’ commissions, to – the majority in health or computer studies – while the regional government remembered that there were 13,200 without covering. In addition, according to the union, 60% of those of the public did not have the guaranteed practices. In the protest they have been noticed.
“13 private universities in Madrid and yours falls to Cados. Ayuso resignation, ”says a banner. In the careers of Medicine, Psychology or Sports Sciences – whose overflowing demand cannot cover the public due to lack of places and means – this privatization path has been initiated with all the impetus in Andalusia, Extremadura and the Canary Islands.
Financial and labor asphyxiation of younger scientists has resulted in the creation of this month of the Association of Precarious Workers of the Community of Madrid (there is already a state level). “We cannot continue allowing research to sustain themselves about precariousness. It is time for us to recognize and guarantee a stable future, ”says Cristina Rodríguez, vice president.
