スペインの財政赤字削減政策による教育費削減で、教科書代や、給食費の助成金の削減で下層民の庶民は苦しい生活に,
La pobreza se cuela en clase
Los recortes y la crisis dañan las posibilidades de los alumnos con menos recursos
Los centros privados ceden estudiantes a los concertados y estos, a los públicos
Charo Nogueira Madrid 30 SEP 2012 - 21:06 CET
The class slips into poverty
The cuts and the crisis damaged the chances of students with fewer resources
Private schools give students the concerted and these, to the public
Charo Nogueira Madrid 30 SEP 2012 - 21:06 CET
For many twists and turns, Carmen Polo fails to square the puzzle. Is the tupper Course: Making ends meet in a return to the pocket, backpack and dwindling aid. "Only 900 euros a month come home, because my husband works three weeks a month for your company ERE. In the mortgage is going 380. In the baby's nursery, public, 140. That allowed me to try working place, but now there is no dining scholarship for my other two children and so it is impossible to leave to eat at school. And if you do not eat lunch there, how am I going to find work? "Raises women.
Polo difficulties are common at the start of a school year: the growing economic downturn, with a quarter of the workforce unemployed, drowning a growing number of families and budget cuts decimate aids such as books or dining. These difficulties, many experts, carry another heavy bill will be more long-term deterioration of equal opportunities. These difficulties, in order, leading to the increase of children affected by poverty and are just over one in four -26.5%, almost three points higher than in 2007 and above the average of the population Overall, 21.8%, according to the National Statistics Institute. But the crisis also takes a toll on the middle class causes a transfer of private school students to the concert, and this, to the public, whose means are trimmed.
The 26.5% of the children are poor, three points more than in 2007
While check numbers with other mothers Polo organizes lots of books, new and used, for the families of the cooperative school. Much cheaper price -90 per-primary volumes, but this year has been less demand: 140 of the 370 students at this public school have been left out, almost 4 in 10, compared to a quarter in the previous year- . "It's for failing to signal, from 30 euros. It's a lot of money in savings of 400-odd euros with two or three children, "says Mercedes Arroyo, director of the center. Asturias is the public school, in the neighborhood of Palomeras vallecano High, a place where crisis is primed and the scourge of unemployment is the sum of snips. A place, among many others, where the chain-depletion-stop welfare cuts grips with even more strength and steep start of the course.
The allocation of public money for books, reduced to 8111 euros, perhaps can overcome the lack of volume on the desks, but what about the food in a school where 3 of 10 scholarship students had last year? These subsidies have been replaced by minimum prices: $ 1.20 per day for students not previously paid, 3.40 for those with lower per capita income to 2,450 euros per year and 4.80 for the rest. "For many children, the only decent meal they take a day," says Ruth Fernandez, president of the association of parents of the center. So, the tupper not a good solution in Asturias, where also check accounts Olga Maria Alves, a widow with three children at this school. "Without the help of last year, the dining room cost me more than I earn as a cleaner. If I do not get scholarship, let alone work and live with the pension, "poses.
Tartera portfolio rhymes with this course. The food hanging in the balance for many and also a third of families "with serious difficulties regarding books and materials to complete" calculates Jesus Maria Sanchez, president of Ceapa, secular confederation of parents.
"For many, the only decent meal that is taken from the school"
"I just got a mother who came with a note from the teacher: 'Your son does not bring the books and does the work'. 'But I can not buy them', I said, "recounted Friday the pedagogue Maria Paz Pardillos, program coordinator of Caritas Segovia childhood. In the past two weeks has received 52 requests for assistance for back to school. "In crisis situations, children are the most vulnerable and sometimes their needs are in the background. First you pay the rent, the food. Books have to wait. "
"It is clear that a situation of equal opportunities decline" reflects this expert.
The head of Ceapa gives the reason: the economic downturn and its impact on the school are detrimental to equality of opportunity, which is in the classroom one of its main tools. And Arroyo described the director: "When children suffer deterioration in their families, sometimes even evictions, suffer emotional stress resulting in attention deficit and performance." And it's not the same as having their own room and computer at home that lack of it, remember.
"The free schooling is guaranteed and the school maintains its role as equal opportunities," responsible for Concapa disagrees, the confederation of Catholic parents, Luis Carbonel. "The role of social elevator is not committed. In university studies and masters I have my doubts, "he adds. However, it has detected low in school cafeterias and increase lunchboxes - "is nonsense copper who carry abusive pricing" -. Although he believes that the economic downturn may mean "an incentive" for the study, notes its consequences Carbonel schooling for kids: "There is a transfer of students from private schools to charter schools, charter schools and the public." "That hinders freedom of parental choice," he adds.
Child poverty is the mirror of inequality of opportunity
Representatives of aided schools-publicly funded but where parents often make extra contributions-grouped in Catholic Schools recognize that transfer and use a drop of dining and enrollment in extracurricular activities. The latter, together with cutting or freezing of public funds, has put concerted in a situation of "serious difficulties" as Emilio Diaz, secretary of the Spanish Federation of Religious Education (FERE) in the Community of Madrid . "The transfer of students from the private to the whole concert is a clear phenomenon. In the case of high school [level just subsidized], we yield to public institutes students, especially because they are free. This has been exacerbated by the crisis, "he explains.
A crisis that triggered impoverishment, especially the children.
"We'll go to a society with less social mobility"
"Families with children are in a relative situation getting worse. They have more difficulty than the rest for income, grants are cut books and dining, health copayments increase, VAT ... All this affects them and strangles their accounts, "explains Olga sang, professor of Foundations of Economics, University of Alcalá.
"The impact of child poverty will not be today, but tomorrow," says this expert who participated in studies of UNICEF and Caritas. "Children may not perceive what they lack, but are not able to measure the impact it will have, for example, lack of English extra classes or music. Child poverty erodes human capital and the sufferer is less likely to develop their potential. That damages equal opportunities in the future, "he adds. Moreover, "the poverty of children reflects how there is equality of opportunity in a country."
A thermometer when "the cradle determines future opportunities." If there is no comparison in the starting conditions, "we will go to a society with less social mobility, more unequal and less equal opportunities" concludes sang.
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