Protests from parents and students at start of the school year – TVI24

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Hundreds of students and parents this morning put a green scarf at the entrance of Secondary School of Marco Canaveses to prevent the start of classes and protest parades works for nearly two years. According to the parents’ association, the green scarf at the main gate is a symbolic gesture intended to demonstrate that parents and students still have hope that the problem will be solved.

The refurbishment of the school stopped in late 2012, financial difficulties the contractor was completed when only one of the three phases of the intervention. Since then, the school activities elapsed divided by new and old parts of the school, with the direction of the establishment to publicly denounce the precarious working conditions and even security.

River Mills , county Aljustrel, about a hundred people, including 12 children, protested the school closing 1st Cycle of Basic Education, what they consider an “injustice.”

Promoted by the village population, the protest, the day that begins the new school year began about 09:00 am in front of the school building with the concentration of popular, chanting slogans like “We want to open the school ‘,’ we want our school” and “we want our children here.”

The 13 children in the 1st Cycle of Rio Mills defaulted on classes in school destination, the School Vipasca Center in the county seat, Aljustrel, about four kilometers away.

Population and local councilors considered this Monday that the closure of the school complex Monsanto , Idanha-a-Nova, is an ‘act of betrayal’ by the Government.

“We want our school open ‘and that’ the children do what they want them Do our “were some of the slogans that echoed at the entrance of the school complex Monsanto (Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco district) during a scheduled to mark the start of the school year protest.

Speaking to Lusa, Paulo Monteiro, president of the Union of Parishes of Monsanto and Idanha-a-Velha, said that the closure of the school complex “is an act of betrayal of the Government.”

Mayor of Idanha-a-Nova, Armindo Jacinto, said that the local authority will hire a teacher for School Complex Monsanto, so that children do not lose teaching activities. “The camera decided, together with the parents, have to hire a teacher for children do not lose their teaching activities,” said Armindo Jacinto Lusa.

Parents of students at the Primary School 1st cycle of Vidigal , in the municipality of Leiria, closed the educational establishment with a padlock, as a protest against the lack of security. The president of the parents association, Paulo Medeiros explained that the position is in an alert to a problem that has been going on “for about five years.”

Erada in Covilha, parents of students in first cycle brought their children to school that locality, although this finding closed, and challenge decision over which say they have no official information. “We are here for two reasons: first, because we are against the closure of the school and then, because no one told us where we should take the kids,” he said, speaking to Lusa, Marta Martins, mother of one child <. / p>

Dozens of parents of students of the School Center Gandarela , Celorico de Basto, prevented this morning, the start of school because they disagree with classes of students from different years.

Figueira Lorvão , Penacova, parents and guardians of students of Primary School education boycotted the opening of the school year in protest against the failure of the law in the framework of children with special needs.