The PS deputies, elected by the circle of Faro, through a question made in Parliament to the Minister of Education, expressed their concern with the beginning of the school year and with the success of all students in the Algarve.
The parliamentarians also denounced an "absolutely anomalous" case in Silves and questioned the number of classes that are still without a teacher and how many classes have more than 30 students in the Algarve.
For socialist deputy Miguel Freitas, the PSD/CDS-PP government coalition has been following “a policy of devaluing public schools and degrading education, which will have highly disastrous effects for the development of the country and the Algarve, as it is jeopardizing the future of the next generations».
The most recent case, which was presented to him by the parents' representatives, after alerting the Regional Delegation of the Ministry of Education, has to do with the situation of a class in São Bartolomeu de Messines.
“What is happening with the 10th PM 13/16 class of the professional multimedia course at the Secondary School of Silves seems to be what the Government intends for teaching in Portugal. The disinvestment in education, increasing the number of students per class to levels that represent a setback in teaching conditions and penalize young people who want an opportunity to follow their vocation through a professional course», says Miguel Freitas.
According to the guardians of the students of the 10th PM 13/16 class of the professional multimedia course, that class now has 36 students, with obvious implications for the learning conditions, since «there are students who have classes on the floor, for inexistence of enough chairs and tables, demanding, also, for that very reason that the class be divided in two».
The Socialist deputy also criticizes the fact that the regional delegation for Education is now "a sounding board of national guidelines, with no room for maneuver to act and alien to the legitimate interests of educational agents, as a consequence of the absurd centralization that the Ministry reached of Education".
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