College Paula Frassinetti closes doors without warning parents of the students – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

On Thursday started being contacted by the Louis Group of Schools of Camões in Lisbon. In the middle of August – vacation – got to know that the children were not in school. And they have to find alternative until September. Parents of students of the College Paula Frassinetti, establishment of private schools that closed its doors without warning, are outraged and some even admit come to process the director of the college.

                     

                         At stake are 32 students, from pre-school to 4th grade of primary school, attending college, he told PUBLIC Luis Domingues, steering Schools Luís de Camões Cluster – a grouping of public schools that has administrative supervision . that private school

Luis Domingues explains that colleges without parallel teaching – whose students have to perform examinations and enrollment in public schools – must necessarily “belong” to a public network for administrative issues. “In everything else, in the financial and educational fields, these schools have autonomy.”

“On Wednesday, the director of the school Ana Paula Fernandes told us that the establishment would close and we started contacting parents “, the professor continues. “Parents are not doing well because they were caught by surprise and some even had paid all year.”

Luis Domingues conveys that the public group has the capacity to receive only a few students (“five or six “) by the guardians have even arrange alternatives. “They’re in the middle of vacation, have to come to Lisbon …” This charge is unaware of the reasons for the closure of the college.

PUBLIC Contacted by the Ministry of Education and Science says it will be proposed to permit the cancellation of the private school, which has a capacity of 130 students. He adds, “The College of the owner entity did not give aware of this situation to the Directorate-General for Schools has, however, met the provisions of Article 70 of Decree 152/2013, of November 4, delivering the ultimate in documentation public educational institution, in this case the grouping of Luís de Camões Schools. The Schools Group mentioned is contacting the carers to be able to regularize enrollment in other schools. “

No one was told
” I was taken by surprise the school did not inform me of anything. If not for the group to remember to contact parents to know what schools would put the boys not know anything, “he told Lusa a mother, Tania de Melo Rebelo, adding that after contact with other carers , he realized that no one had been warned.

Tania Melo Rebelo stressed that officials and school teachers were all fired on Wednesday, also without notice. The school ends this August but, according to the same charge of education, everything went normally in July. “I paid the renewal of the registration, paid the ATL, everything as start the school year in September. This is not done, we are in the middle of August, many parents are on vacation and do not know what school will be our children, “he declared, vowing to” join parents to sue the school director “for fraud.

PUBLIC has tried unsuccessfully to contact the school. This began operations in 1987. It receives pre-school students (three to five years) and 1st cycle of basic education (from the age of six). In the latest ranking of schools last year, made based on the results of the 4th year students in national examinations Portuguese and Mathematics, was in place 219 in more than 4441 public and private schools.