Unions Denounce Deficiencies at IES Radio Exterior in Alicante

The union STEPV has forcefully condemned the untenable situation at IES Radio Exterior in Alicante. The union blames "cuts and lack of resources, both material and human," for what they consider "intolerable degradation."

The educational community, through a call from the 'Platform for a Dignified Learning Space', will hold a protest chocolate event this Friday, April 4, at 5:00 p.m. on Historiador Vicente Ramos Street. The "deficiencies" at IES Radio Exterior, along with others in the area's educational centres, have united families to demand a new institute in the Pau 5 district to "solve the saturation of current infrastructures." The union has reminded that this IES alone has more than 11 prefabricated classrooms and an excess of hundreds of students.

Furthermore, the union has accused the Department of Education of "endangering the quality of public education and the working conditions of teaching and non-teaching staff." Conditions that, according to them, are highlighted by data collected by the AMPA from various centres in the Sant Joan area.

From STEPV, they have criticised that "the imposed cuts have left the centre in a critical situation for the occupational health of teachers and non-teaching staff." Among these shortcomings are the removal of a drawing room, a music room, a computer room, and a library; and the elimination of the canteen for breaks and the school dining room, as projected in the work.

Additionally, they also claim that an extra prefabricated classroom is missing and that the Bachillerato building has been occupied by other groups, leaving students without their own classroom and forcing them to relocate to a prefabricated one. Other demands include the need for new toilets in the yard; the lack of both teaching staff (teachers of Spanish for foreigners) and non-teaching staff (administrative and concierge) and a counsellor for Vocational Training; and the lack of materials for class development.

It is due to the accumulation of needs that STEPV has demanded the Department of Education "act immediately and reverse these cuts." Among the demands of families and teachers is also the recovery of parking for teachers and buses, volleyball courts, and new services for teachers and students.

"We will not allow the educational community to continue suffering from the negligence and mismanagement of the administration. Public education is a fundamental right, and we will not tolerate more cuts," they have insisted from STEPV. Therefore, they have called for "continued mobilisation and denunciation of this situation until the Department applies real and definitive solutions to ensure dignified conditions for all students and teaching and non-teaching staff."