Educational community of Arraiján does not rule out new protests, tomorrow they await Minister Gorday de Villalobos

Nine educational centers in the district of Arraiján protested this morning to demand the presence of the Minister of Education Maruja Gorday de Villalobos so that she responds to the poor conditions of these schools in West Panama.

Edgar González, president of the Association of Parents of the Educational Center October 11, assured that they consider themselves mocked by the authorities of the Ministry of Education since on the morning of this Tuesday, May 3, they expected the presence of the minister and she never He arrived because he went to Chiriquí to meet with the leaders of that province.

“On Friday they did not send a newly appointed regional director of education and when we asked him about the situation of the schools in Arraiján, he told us that he had to catch up since he only had an hour after being appointed. This is the lack of capacity that our authorities have and ineptitude when it comes to responding to the problems that all educational centers in the district of Arraiján have,” he said.

For his part, the regional director of education, Enrique Bernal, who was booed by the crowd, assured that in the case of the Fernando de Lesseps School they already have a company that will deal with the issue of electricity, in addition to assuring that they have already appointed some workers. manuals, in addition to the fact that a human resources team will arrive in the next few days for the other appointments.

The students, parents and teachers do not rule out new mobilizations and asked the educational community to meet tomorrow at 7:00 am at the Fernando de Lesseps school to wait again for the presence of Minister Gorday de Villalobos.