SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 8. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuela Armas, said this Tuesday that her “obligation” is to promote that there are more “public and free” places from zero to three years, hence her department promotes a pilot project to enable 32 classrooms in the Canary Islands for two-year-olds.
“I understand the group, anyone wants to defend their business but I am not going to stop doing my obligation so that private companies live from that, they are not going to get it with me,” he commented in the control session to questions from Cs.
The counselor recalled that this opposition was already raised by private nurseries when schooling began at three years old, while denying that the project implies the loss of employment given that these students will be attended by teachers, technicians and assistants of Early Childhood Education .
Armas has pointed out that the law allows dividing the cycle of Early Childhood Education and in fact many communities already do it.
Ricardo Fernández (Cs) has pointed out that this project “is complicated to carry out” and if the private network is executed it would be “doomed to disappear” and with it, many jobs, especially women.
Likewise, he has criticized the lack of participation of the group in the preparation of the draft and understands that families “deserve to have the right and freedom” to choose the centers and access aid for early schooling.
Fernández has pointed out that if the Government does not change its criteria “the lockout seems inevitable and the mobilization of the groups”.
