Madrid (EFE) school holidays, a promise criticized by the opposition and unions, who consider it a “pre-campaign announcement.”
During his visit to the works of the Montecarmelo public institute, which will open its doors next school year, Ayuso pledges to open public educational centers for children from 3 to 6 years old and Primary students from 6 to 12 years old, to those who will be offered free extracurricular activities, such as study support initiatives, language reinforcement, sports or the arts.
Díaz Ayuso, who has also announced aid for extracurricular activities for those students who have to give them up due to lack of resources, already raised this proposal in the debate on the state of the region, as did the socialist spokesman, Juan Lobato, who extended to open from seven in the morning to seven in the afternoon the twelve months of the year to promote conciliation.
Madrid proposes that the proposal be established in 2024
The Community of Madrid opened up at that time to discuss the proposal with teachers and families, and now it is proposed to be established in January 2024, if he manages to revalidate his position as president after the elections on May 28.
An announcement that families see as “empty in content and without news” because it is already being made in the Community of Madrid, declared the president of FAPA Giner de los Ríos, María del Carmen Morillas, and specified that city councils and associations of fathers and mothers of students offer camps at Christmas, Easter or summer to promote conciliation.
The PSOE accuses Ayuso of copying his idea about schools
From the PSOE, Lobato has accused Díaz Ayuso of “copying” his proposal to open schools in non-school periods, an initiative that he has celebrated but that he believes comes “six months after” the Socialists raised it.
The PSOE candidate to preside over the Community of Madrid has promised to activate his proposal to open schools from seven in the morning to seven in the afternoon “throughout the year”, as of September 1, with the possibility that students can carry out robotics and programming, art and creativity, and sports and physical activity activities.
For her part, the leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, has considered that “reconciling is not parking our sons and daughters, it is facilitating the lives of mothers and fathers to be able to spend time with them”, she has written on her Twitter account. Twitter.
The majority unions in Madrid education have stated that they accept Díaz Ayuso’s proposal as long as it is not in charge of teaching staff or with educational competencies, although they consider it “a pre-campaign announcement” and point out that teachers are “fed up” with that education be used as an “electoral weapon”.