Protests began early in the morning at IES L'Eliana, where teachers and educational staff set up an informative picket line to explain the reasons for the strike and the sector's main demands to families and students. Subsequently, actions moved to the municipality's public primary schools, where informative pickets were repeated in front of the schools.
The mobilization continued with the teaching column from Camp de Túria traveling to Valencia to participate in the unified demonstration in defense of public education. The group traveled by metro to Empalme station, where they joined other columns from l’Horta Nord before jointly marching along Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas and the city's main thoroughfares to Plaza de San Agustín, the central point of the protest called by the Valencian educational community.
“"The mobilizations do not respond solely to labor demands, but also to the need to defend quality public education, with sufficient resources and prepared to face the social and educational challenges of the coming years."
Among the collective's main demands are the reduction of student-teacher ratios to combat overcrowding in classrooms, an increase in teaching and support staff, the effective implementation of the staffing agreement, and a reduction in the bureaucratic burden currently borne by educational centers. Additionally, teachers are demanding salary equalization with teachers in other autonomous communities.
The demands also include improvements in educational infrastructure, more resources for inclusive education, the defense of Valencian as a language of educational cohesion, and measures to alleviate the current workload that, they denounce, teachers are enduring. The teachers' assembly has assured that protests will continue in the coming weeks until the Conselleria listens to the educational community and implements real measures to guarantee dignified, inclusive, and quality public education.
The educational community of Camp de Túria has already announced new protest actions in various municipalities in the region. This Tuesday, May 12, a concentration is planned in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Riba-roja de Túria, while in the afternoon, CEIP El Campés de la Pobla de Vallbona will host a popular snack with children's games as a meeting point and defense of public education. Mobilizations will continue on Wednesday with a new concentration in Plaza Partidors de Llíria.
