Parents of students from the Municipal Schools of Music announce protests if classes do not start

New beginning of the course with complaints from the parents of students of the Municipal Schools of Music of Badajoz, who made their registrations before the summer. The association that includes the parents of the enrolled students, AMPAEMMBA, has made public its discomfort for not having started the course yet “due to the lack of hiring the necessary security guards.”

Three weeks ago it was the teachers of the municipal music schools who denounced that classes had not yet started and that they had not even been announced the start date of the new course. This happened after the June 25 municipal plenary approved the increase in teachers’ working hours, precisely to be able to extend the course from June to September, coinciding with the school period.

Solved the campus of teachers, now the problem is the lack of security guards. “We do not understand how, knowing the City Council that the course should start in September and having been requested well in advance by the Municipal Music Schools, at this point their hiring has not been resolved.” Moreover, parents say that “from the schools themselves inform us that the consistory has not even taken out its tender.” For this reason, AMPAEMMBA claims to have sent a letter to both the Councilor for Culture, Paloma Morcillo, and the mayor, Ignacio Gragera, showing our discomfort and requesting a meeting with the mayor. “But we haven’t had an answer yet.” For this reason, we want to demand that the Badajoz City Council provide a solution to this situation as quickly as possible.

500 students affected

According to the association, there are about 500 students who are being harmed by the management of the City Council. The teachers of the schools have been hired and working since September 1 but, however, they cannot carry out their teaching work due to the lack of their students.

They denounce the offense regarding other schools dependent on the City Council, such as the Municipal Sports Schools or the Arts and Crafts School, which start classes this week. “Why not the music ones? The commitment to extend the course from September to June was not only with the teaching staff, but also with the students, who expected to have started classes in mid-September. To this day, the start date of the same is still unknown.

In the event that no immediate solution is found, the parents assure that they will begin concentrations in front of the City Hall “until they listen to us and take us into consideration.” AMPAEMMBA also adds that they are “even willing to go to the Ombudsman if necessary.”