The candidate of the Por Andalucía coalition for the Presidency of the Board in the next regional elections, Antonio Maíllo, has shown this Saturday his support for a mobilization held in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), promoted by families of students with specific support needs who demand "dignified attention" for their children.
The also federal coordinator of Izquierda Unida (IU) launched this message in a media briefing during the protest, where he censured that the president of the Junta de Andalucía and of the PP-A, Juanma Moreno, "everything he touches" in the area of public services "he spoils if there is no business".
"If he doesn't see a business source, he's not interested" in the leader of PP-A, Maíllo has criticized, who has remarked that the demand of this "movement of Andalusian families claiming dignified attention for students with educational support needs" reflects "the exact thermometer of what an Andalusian quality system is," which, he has insisted, is "one that attends to those who need it most."
"And in this case there is absolute neglect, a deterioration of services for students with educational support," Maíllo has warned. In this context, he alluded to his experience as a teacher and pointed out that he knows "how frustrating it is when there are no resources" for "specific profiles of people who need support and reinforcement."
After remarking that "school triumphs when people who start from a weaker base than the rest achieve the same goals as the rest", the candidate for Por Andalucía has insisted that the coalition "is clear" in its commitment to the "defense of public school", which "also has to do with the defense and attention of students with support needs who do not have to change schools to be attended, but will be attended in the school where they are".
In this regard, Maíllo has committed to ensuring that resources are "oriented" towards the "needs" of these students, and has maintained that "Andalusia and education have a solution," but not "with the Popular Party" and its president in Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, who, as the IU leader has reiterated, "despise those who need it most, whether in healthcare, dependency, or education."
In line with this approach, the candidate for Por Andalucía has called for "recovering pride in public schools" through "a government that is a friend to public schools" and to students who should receive "more support" the "more need they have," as Antonio Maíllo concluded.