The Association of Parents of students of Colegio La Arboleda has decided to launch a campaign called "Before the cuts put a green ribbon."
To do this, the whole school community center, parents, students and teachers are participating putting hundreds of green ribbons on fences of this public school Murcia.
The AMPA of this school explained that the decision was taken unanimously at the last meeting of the Association and aims mentalize all need to defend the public schools against education cuts being carried out during the recent months.
This, explained from the Association, a symbolic act in which they want to express the pride of belonging to a public school who feel very satisfied, but over the past few months is being harmed, as the other schools in the Region of Murcia, by the elimination or drastic reduction of investment and aid for the necessary operation.
Families manifest center green ribbons placing your complaint falls in aid to maintain the center, cuts in faculty, declining aid for the purchase of school supplies or aid room, among other aspects.
The school community shares the concern of all citizens before the difficult economic situation in our country, further aggravated in the Region of Murcia, but argue that the money spent on education of the young should not be treated as an expense, but as an investment in the future, so that should be considered in other areas in which governments seek savings.
Therefore, they want to express with these green ribbons defense Public School, which is so proud to belong and to require the Department of Education, Training and Employment of the Murcia Region and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports withdraw budgetary constraints being carried out will only bring serious damage to a service as basic in our society is education.
Source: FAPA-RM