The Fernando Miguillón School is mired in the calm of his deterioration: Outside, a high battery damaged seats They threaten to collapse. Inside, the classrooms that had the joy of being painted two years ago fail to hide the cracks of the walls, which support a roof whose rubble remain intact on the tables and the floor on which they have fallen.
While other educational centers ultimate details to resume classes This Monday, August 25, the only educational center based on basic and secondary education in COPEYITO – a town in the Río San Juan municipality, in the province María Trinidad Sánchez – still without a start date, due to the Lack of maintenance prompt.
“No, We can’t start classes on Monday“The director of the squad, Roder Rosario, said they are working as a bee honey, slow, regretted.
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He said he agreed with the educational district 14-03 of Río San Juan Pautar as “tentative dates“Start on Monday 1 or September 8, if the Repairs.
Paint and nothing more
Just four days after the classes At the national level according to the 2025-2026 school calendar, two men will discharge the exterior painting, A patch that does not solve the risk that the roof diaper will detach About any of the 135 students basic level and 100 secondary level enrolled for this year.
“Look, right there a child was sitting when that roof fell and passed him next to him,” said a school teacher when Free newspaper visited the school, being able to observe others Campus deficiencies as:
- Old, dirty and broken blackboards
- Bathrooms with corroded and detached doors
- Classrooms divided by half with wooden walls in the absence of squad space
- A kitchen without equipment
- The direction’s office with chairs, files and papers stacked in a very small space.
“We have already made the call several times. We have made uprisings, since the center needs maintenance and they only have us waiting. They tell us that they are coming, but they do not come,” said Margarita Quezada, president of the Parent AssociationMothers and friends of the school (APMAE) of COPEYITO.
Quezada ensures that parents are not going to send their children until they are assured that the squad has safe conditions For them.
This coincides ODIALIZA SANTANAmother of a 15 -year -old daughter and another of five who study in the center.
Santana recalled that the ceiling detachment It occurs since the beginning of the last school year. This caused students to finish the last two months of the last school year because the roof ” I was falling too much“
“They are bringing paint, they are bringing things, but They have not done anything to do. They have not thrown the fine, they have not done anything. You have to fix the kitchen, you have to fix the bathrooms, you have to fix the address, everything. And nothing has been done, “he deplored.
The new high school has been paralyzed for years
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Meanwhile, community members complain that The construction of a larger high schoola few meters from Fernando Miguillón, It is paralyzed “For more than 15 years.”
Rosario indicated that The structure is finished by 95 %but that they still do not finish it because, as explained by those who are in charge of the work, it is arrested for a dispute with the owner of the land due to lack of payment.
From the outside, The structure appears to be finished and even became paintedbut the facade, closed with zinc leaves, still does not finish. From within the construction materials are observed, without any staff working on it.
The community They fear that the school year will be lost in Copeyito If educational authorities The squad still does not intervene That, despite its limited capabilities, it is the only place where the teaching bread is given in that community.
