Several Madrid educational centers have received from last week calls from the Education Inspection to withdraw all, where he has killed about 65,000 people in a little less than two years. The government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has been, considers that the policy must remain away from the educational environment despite the fact that after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 allowed and encouraged in Madrid schools solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
Several sources from the educational world have informed this newspaper of these orders on anonymity to avoid reprisals. It is confirmed by a retired teacher who has direct knowledge, Carlos Díez Hernando, who reports that the cessation orders are transmitted by the Ministry inspectors verbally. “They have done so in general in public and concerted centers,” he clarifies. The group of which it is spokesman, will file legal measures against the Autonomous Administration, so they consider a violation of the freedom of chair and the autonomy of the centers.
The prohibition of support for Gaza contrasts with solidarity with the Ukrainian people, which the community not only allowed in Madrid schools, but also encouraged. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ayuso declared that “Ukraine needs us” and among other support measures, his government a collection of food and hygiene products in 1580 public and concerted educational centers. The Vice President, Minister of Education, Enrique Ossorio, visited the CEIP Eduardo Rojo of the capital to know how this action was being developed among the more than 470 students of that center.
In the months after the invasion, students of ages as early as seven years were allowed to decorated the walls of their center. The teachers also answered the questions about the war that the little ones asked them.
The retired professor Díez Hernando regrets the double measure of measuring. He says that for years many activities have been carried out in educational centers to denounce other wars, genocides and human rights violations, which were not only repressed, but were backed by educational administrations. “The cloisters and management teams that have carried out these activities to denounce the Palestinian genocide, are the ones who comply with the current legality,” he says.
The Ministry of Education answers this newspaper that no general instruction on Palestinian flags or any other aspect has been given. “Only when the territorial area addresses (the five management bodies of the Ministry according to the geographical area) know that some center wants to organize activities that could be related to some political issue, remind the directors that the educational centers must be,” says a spokesman, who has not answered the question about how many schools and institutes have been contacted for this reason.
This Tuesday, a commission of five members of the Díez Hernando activists gathered informally at the Congress of Deputies, after receiving the invitation from the International Development Cooperation Commission. There they transferred their complaint about the restrictions of the Madrid Education Ministry. “We want to report it to reach the high inspection of the State of the Ministry of Education,” adds the retired teacher.
The sources consulted indicate that the censorship of Gaza support gestures have begun in recent days. For months, families associations have celebrated pro-palestinian acts in the schools and institutes of Madrid, and there are numerous samples of this on social networks.
The Federation of Associations of Families Giner de los Ríos says that it has always supported all these claims and peaceful acts. When the AMPAS began with the concentrations, months ago, they received pressures from the Israeli embassy, according to Giner de los Ríos spokeswoman, Mari Carmen Morillas. “We then released a statement about it to protect the associations of mothers and fathers in their right to demonstrate,” says the spokeswoman.
“30% of human beings killed in Palestine are boys and girls,” he adds. “We are going for 20,000 minors. We cannot consent as a society that this is being produced and that is allowed. All the children in the world must be protected, more than 20,000 Palestinian children can never bike out.”
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