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Antonio Benito, socialist mayor, demands that Ballesta join the socialist mayors in offering municipal spaces so that school groups can expand, lower ratios and thus work for a safer "return to school". "The Municipal Socialist Group has drawn up a list of more than 80 municipal buildings that could be used to unfold classrooms and that we make available to Ballesta and his team.

We are willing to do whatever it takes to make the start of the course safe.

"Antonio Benito. The start of the new course this year is complicated.

The outbreaks of recent weeks and the incessant increase in cases sows the next beginning of the course of uncertainties.

"In the street they do not talk about anything else.

Families and workers are concerned about the increase in cases and improvisation and lack of ideas from the Ministry of Education.

The City of Murcia, as the largest municipality and capital of the region, does not he can drain the bulge and has to do his best to alleviate citizen concern.

For this reason, the Municipal Socialist Group invites Mayor Ballesta to leave passivity behind and, among other measures, contribute municipal means to face this challenge ", explains the mayor Antonio Benito. "Going back to school is essential for students, especially for the little ones, but our educational centers are not prepared in the absence of two weeks for the course to begin.

We have known for months that closed, crowded and nearby places are spaces high risk of contagion, children infect and are infected.

", says the councilor.

"A few days ago, the education minister argued that more teachers could not be hired because there are no physical spaces.

That, at least in Murcia, is not true: we have drawn up a catalog with more than 80 public buildings in the entire municipality of Murcia that could be used for this purpose.Already in April this municipal group proposed to create a network of temporary classrooms and dining rooms using these municipal premises and other spaces, the ratio could be reduced to between 15 and 20 students per classroom, thus increasing the distance and therefore safety, without sending the students to home.

Murcia must do as the municipalities governed by the PSOE and make these spaces available to its party partner and education counselor.

" "If the government team, headed by its mayor, has the spaces that its counselor needs to increase the staff of teachers and does not offer them, the only thing left to think about is that the Popular Party has decided to resign from its responsibilities and transfer them to professionals and families, while they look for excuses to justify their inaction.

They are proving that they are not up to the situation and the needs of Murcians and Murcians, especially the youngest.

Therefore, we demand that the mayor be aware how much we are risking, let him abandon his photo and propaganda policy for a few days and be proactive in this worrying situation.

", protests the socialist councilor. Antonio Benito recalls that the Municipal Socialist Group has been warning of this problem for months: "Since the crisis began, we have worked with numerous people and educational groups, channeling their contributions through our motions, such as the one last April for the creation of transitional centers.

But already then we had the feeling that they had chosen to deny the harsh reality and this course was planned without significant changes.

As if nothing happened.

In the PSOE we were aware that the problems of Covid-19 were going to last over time.

and that it was necessary to find long-term solutions.

But Ballesta and his team live on a day-to-day basis, determined to deny reality, insisting on their policy of showy events and superficiality, away from the everyday problems of citizens, "he reproaches.

Benedict. "The municipality of Murcia must demand that the Regional Government transfer funds from the COVID fund of the Government of Spain to pay the essential increase in school hygiene, to implement epidemiological and health measures that prevent the community transmission of the virus from reaching schools, to ensure school transport lines and to categorically reject the transfer of responsibility for conciliation matters to us.

Mr.

Ballesta must take the initiative and raise his voice before his colleagues in the regional government, promoting and demanding effective measures in this area, since our municipality has a high rate of community contagion, otherwise it will abandon its neighbors in these uncertain times ", explains Benito. The councilor also states that: "There are fifteen days left to start the course and we suffer a regrowth.

Can we start the course in these conditions? What conciliation measures will parents have if there is no return to school or if they only do it? days or at certain times? These and many other doubts torment families and education professionals in our municipality, when do you plan to solve them? ".

Source: PSOE Murcia