Protests and dissent for schools conditions

President Juan Carlos Varela visited yesterday morning, February 29, the 44 temporary classrooms Virgen De La Roca in West Panama, where he said that the two wooden pavilions are for young people of Costa Rica school to study while the new building is already tendered to be constructed.

Varela said that classrooms are the result of a great effort made by the security sectors (in this school worked the Institutional Protection Service, the Ministry of Education and other institutions), which prevented the students had to teach modules.

While this was given, the floor on which they were standing gave journalists felt down. According to the president, this happened because there were many people standing in one place.

Parents have questioned the quality of construction of the pavilions and fear for the safety of their children.

Veraguas

At Veraguas, several schools held protests in the streets on Monday at the start of classes, including the Professional and Technical Institute of Veraguas and in Mariato, primary school Manuel Reyes Higinio.

Meanwhile, classes are suspended in school Belisario Villar de Santiago, Punta Delgadita, Cañazas Debajo de Santiago, IPTV Las Palmas, Colegio Miguel Alba Sona and IPT Ñurúm in the Ngäbe-Bugle.

Professor Daniel Mojica said there needs to name approximately 25 to 30 teachers and noted that about 15 have waived the charge. The protests and the suspension of classes in the aforementioned schools due to alleged irregularities, such as unfinished structures, overcrowding, pollution backlogs and bat droppings and fiberglass.

Bocas del Toro

About two thousand students did not attend their first day of school, after their guardians decided to put them padlock and chain on doors three campuses, for demanding better structural conditions and various appointments.

The Regional Director of Education, Miriam Castro, reached an agreement with parents and managed to lift the strike, then headed to the centers Finca Finca 44 and 62 to try to stop other protests.

Coclé

With two protests and a school that does not start classes by structural problems, with two campuses ranch saloons and others without electricity, he started Monday in Cocle the academic year with more than 54,000 students.

In Penonomé, school Tulu in northern Penonomé not start classes this week, while in Tucué only give this week to Meduca to give response to the four ranch salons that have already lack five teachers, otherwise, they go to the street ..

Chiriquí

Classes in the Chiriqui province began on Monday with a deficit of 300 teachers in different schools in this region, where the selection process is not over, Deputy Minister of Education, Carlos Staff, who attended the opening ceremony reported the school year in college Felix Olivares Contreras accompanied by Security Minister Rodolfo Aguilera.

"We hope the process meet in the coming days to prevent protests that may arise," said the deputy minister.

For the second year, students from school Josefa Montero Vasquez attend other schools because they do not conclude improvements to this school. The same will happen with students of the school Antonio Jose de Sucre, whose structure was demolished and it is expected that this year the construction starts.

Los Santos

With a closed campus, students without preschool teachers and lack of water in some schools, the school year began in the province of Los Santos.

Meanwhile, school chalk Tables classes started without water or electricity.

Herrera

In the province of Herrera, two schools did not begin classes for delays in renovations, which are expected to start next week.

It is elementary school in Boca de Parita, in the village of Monagrillo, where he currently remodeling process early due to serious infrastructure problems facing it; as well as José Dolores Carrizo de Ocú, where there is still a pavilion built.