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Councilor Antonio Benito affirms that "the Socialist Group is concerned that a prolonged closure of schools causes the social and digital gap that already exists between the families of our students may also mean an educational gap that leads to more vulnerability" Next Thursday an ordinary plenary session is held in the Murcia City Council, where the socialist councilors will take advantage of the support of the rest of the political groups for different proposals, the fruit of permanent dialogue with social and economic groups, such as the one aimed at the educational field to prevent boys and girls in the municipality from falling behind in their studies as a result of the suspension of classes more than a month ago. In this sense, the mayor Antonio Benito proposes the creation of temporary reinforcement educational centers this summer to attend to those schoolchildren who have been unable to follow classes from their homes during this Covid pandemic19.
For this, the councilor points out the need to have the complicity of the teaching team, the municipal services, the Ministry of Education and even the catering companies with which an agreement should be signed to provide school canteen service to these transitional reinforcement educational centers. "Despite the efforts of families and teaching teams, who are trying to achieve at least part of the educational objectives, it is no less true that there are certain determining factors that, if they are already an obstacle in a normal situation, make the forced non-attendance It is an insurmountable barrier for many boys and girls in the municipality, "says Benito, who adds that," if we do not remedy it, it is quite possible that there will be minors who go at least six months without doing any academic activity.
" In addition, he warns that although the Ministry of Education is responsible for carrying out the educational measures that are necessary, Murcia is the largest and most populous municipality in the Region and therefore we must have our own measures prepared in case this does not take them out on time.
In fact, he acknowledges, "it has been this City Council that has provided the dining room scholarships of both administrations, for which we have shown that we can and should have a more active role, as other municipalities are doing." For Benito, first of all, "we need to know the magnitude of the problem and, given the close contact they have with the students, the management teams, educators and social workers are the ones who know first-hand the cases that can be found today in distress ", and foresees that" as an undesired effect of this crisis, there must be a not a small number of new cases of minors who may be having difficulties.
It is commendable that food was provided to those who had a dining scholarship, but in good surely that figure is clearly insufficient: not all children who need this help go to schools with school canteens, to which we must add those who, due to a worse family circumstance, have become potential beneficiaries of aid of this type " . "The representatives of the Socialist Group are concerned that a prolonged closure of schools causes that the social and digital gap that already exists between the families of our students may also mean an educational gap that, if this situation were to lengthen, leads to enlarge the state of vulnerability.
Since it is the teachers who have the teaching competence, their guidelines should be the key to teaching, "says the Socialist councilor. For all these reasons, in addition to the creation of temporary reinforcement educational centers, it proposes the creation of a municipal system of operative communication with the management teams and educators of the public schools in the municipality in order to be able to know incidents of truancy that may occur.
be giving in this situation, as well as the creation of a municipal truancy plan. Likewise, it considers it necessary to include "local cultural reactivation activities in the educational program of the transitional reinforcement centers, create a" summer program to facilitate specific family reconciliation for this course in the "municipal nursery schools, through the temporary hiring of personnel external. Also, it requests that the City Council urge the Ministry of Education to expand and accelerate the granting of new canteen services and guarantee adequate food for the boys and girls of the municipality through the expansion of scholarships, which include holidays and holidays, since it bridges the digital gap of students in situations of social vulnerability, including the provision of devices, SIM cards with data or internet access in the catalog of economic benefits and municipal services for socio-educational support for children and adolescents in the Murcia City Council.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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