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Los apoyos que se lleva la tijera
El ministerio retira en 2013 el dinero de los planes PROA de refuerzo para alumnos con dificultades
“Se está penalizando a los más débiles”, dice un experto
J. A. Aunión Talavera de la Reina 2 DIC 2012 - 18:22 CET
The support that takes the scissors
The ministry withdrew in 2013 money booster PROA plans for struggling students
"It is penalizing the weakest", says an expert
J. A. Talavera de la Reina Aunión 2 DIC 2012 - 18:22 CET
Mateos Rodolfo talks about self-esteem. Behind a long gray beard and crazy college professor of language and literature for more than three decades, talks about some "personal success", tiny victories. For example, the first time a kid who did nothing but suspend told, proud, radiant, another teacher had congratulated him for a job. "These are kids who maybe are not going to be doctors or engineers, they have their problems and will continue, but with effort, manage to pass high school and removed." And with secondary education, who knows, maybe I can become doctors, engineers or whatever they want.
Mateos refers to some of the students who have passed through its remedial classes during the evenings in the public school Ribera del Tajo de Talavera, a town of 88,000 inhabitants Toledo, traditionally very committed in trade is suffering with hardness enormous ravages of the crisis. One of the more than 14,000 unemployed in the city is the husband of Maria del Mar Gamonal. "It is dedicated to the construction and did not get anything. Now take away the subsidy over, "says Gamonal. They have a daughter, Ana Isabel, who turns 14 in January. The last course was to reinforce lessons in the afternoon of Ribera del Tajo, but this year have yet to start, complains, no one knows yet whether to start because of the cuts (this newspaper has asked the Ministry of Education, but has received no response).
These classes are in the afternoon part of Reinforcement, Guidance and Support (BOW), trying to "help weaken the drivers of inequality and ensure care for the most vulnerable groups to improve their education and prevent risk of social exclusion, "says the website of the Ministry of Education. Ripped in 2004-2005 with a pilot scheme in 143 schools last year and 4236 he attended primary and secondary schools in Spain. Offered in the last years of primary and the first of the ESO, during difficult transition.
The extra classes in the evening have not yet started in several communities
The plan they have jointly funded communities and the ministry until last year, when education, even in the hands of the Socialist Party, said it was not necessary to put your hand autonomies. In 2013, the ministry is now led by José Ignacio Wert and will not a single euro for BOW. And, if so, will be very touched and may disappear in much of Spain, as the last course disappeared in Baleares. For now, nor in Aragon and in Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha have started this year reinforcements afternoon. In Castilla y León, school principals report, remain, but in fewer centers.
Maybe it's just a program, but perhaps also the last drop of cuts, as many experts predicted, affecting much more and much worse for the most disadvantaged. Fewer teachers and fewer resources have been meaning less splittings (small classes in some areas a few hours a week), unless remedial classes for suspending, removing reception classes for foreign students and, ultimately, the elimination of money for the BOW (this year were 60 million).
"It is nonsense, it is penalizing the weaker" says Professor of Education at the University of Murcia Juan Manuel Escudero. "They are letting these kids homeless, robbed of aid which, being all improvable you want, I did a lot of good," he continues. Escudero has participated in the latest issue of the Journal of Education, specifically dedicated to educational support measures. In his article talks about some shadows of the program (which works better in primary and early implementation), but in many lights: the great appreciation by all participants (teachers, teams, students and families) , improvement in promoting progress, improvements in language and mathematics, the existence of good planning and coordination ... Next to money BOW program, the ministry in 2013 eliminated the budget for the remaining plots against early school leaving (40 million), the money coming out, for example, to hire psychologists or social workers for schools with students with difficulties.
The other leg of PROW are extra teachers during the school day to facilitate the regular splittings and reinforcements where students go loose, but also where there are discipline problems. This part itself is still up in Castilla-La Mancha: 66 teachers extra pay only the Ministry of Education, said a spokeswoman.
The program
tries to compensate for social inequalities
In the case of Ribera del Tajo de Talavera is a professor extra, one less than last year and, in any case, aid does not compensate for the loss of 24 teachers in two years (today is 70 for 1,100 students in shifts morning and afternoon). Declared as a center of special difficulty, the center maintains a bilingual section and a program for students who are better, and give great importance to extracurricular activities (trips to the museum, the theater ...), account director, Andrew of the Heras.
He and Matthew say the extra classes PROA not just about the kids progress academically. Many times, what you need is to acquire habits of study, maintain schedules, marked targets and make the necessary efforts to achieve them. To recover the self-esteem that Mateos spoke earlier in this text. Or simply integration.
This is the case of Lulu Wang, a student of 14 years and smiling Chinese to explain that you have helped a lot remedial classes Language: "At home, with my parents and my brothers, we only speak in Chinese." He says he had not gone to remedial classes if they had been out of high school. "I could very nervous with people I do not know." Beside her, Sandra Mendoza, also 14, years now insists that he would be much worse if I had not had the PROA the last two years (given in 1st and 2nd ESO and she is now in 3rd). His father is a tinkerer and his mother a housewife. "It could have to pay me some tutorials" private.
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