SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 27 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has shown his confidence this Tuesday that the new figure of the student coexistence coordinator in educational centers will be a “further step” to tackle bullying.
In response to a question from Cs in the control session, he has assumed that bullying “concerns” the Government and in fact, in the last school year there were almost 300 suspicions of bullying that finally remained in 130 effective cases.
He has said that the educational community must be “committed” and for this, courses are being held for teachers in attention to multiculturalism, a plan for centers of positive coexistence has been launched with 500 centers and 5,000 students, an active protocol of intervention and a telephone line with psychologists to deal with emergencies.
Torres has remarked that this phenomenon is “increasing” and is especially consolidated among adolescents and in ESO, being lower in Infant, Primary and Baccalaureate, while he has asked to take his debate also to the family sphere.
Ricardo Fernández, spokesman for the Mixed Group, has pointed out that it is necessary to “intensify the work” in Secondary where students with disruptive behavior generate “disorders” in the victims.
He has given Álvaro as an example, a 12-year-old minor with muscular atrophy who has asked the Canarian president himself to go to a school “where he will not be discriminated against”, since he suffers “anguish” every day he goes to his educational center.
He has indicated that public institutions should not “allow” this situation, which is why he has appealed to “review the protocols” given that harassment has changed after the pandemic because ‘cyberbullying’ has decreased but personal harassment returns “with insults, nicknames and teasing.”
Thus, he has claimed to promote an education of values, more training for teachers and knowing how to use social networks.
