The management teams that have resigned from Valencian public centers are reaffirming their request for the Ministry of Education to "enable a space for dialogue that allows directly listening to the people who have assumed the responsibility of leading" schools and institutes. "To understand our resignations, one must first understand the reality that has caused them," these professionals maintain.
These professionals have submitted a written statement to the Secretary Autonomous for Education, Daniel McEvoy, through the entrance registry of the Campanar department. "We do not want to meet to confront. We want to meet to help. We are part of the educational administration and we believe we have the obligation to contribute our experience and knowledge of the reality of the centers," the directors argue.
According to members of these critical management teams, they have received a response from the Autonomous Secretariat for Education to the meeting request recently submitted to the Ministry. In this response, the administration points out that resignations and renunciations to management roles are individual and, therefore, cannot be subject to collective negotiation or treatment.
However, the management teams consider that "the issue raised is not being addressed." "The meeting we requested was not aimed at negotiating our resignations or modifying the administrative procedure that regulates them. What we were asking for was the opportunity to explain firsthand to the highest authorities in Valencian education the problems that educational centers are experiencing and why many people have ended up submitting their resignations," they assert.
The representatives of the directorates recall that their resignations may be individual from an administrative standpoint, but that "the difficulties that have caused them are shared by many centers: lack of human resources, infrastructure problems, bureaucratic overload, difficulties in student attention, insufficient substitutions, and a growing complexity in the daily management of educational centers." "The resignations are individual. The problems that caused them are not," they conclude.
The management teams "especially" regret that the response received does not contemplate the possibility of a meeting aimed at listening to and understanding the reality of the centers. They consider that "no report, no statistic, and no administrative structure can completely replace the vision of the people who direct educational centers and who live daily with their needs, difficulties, and potential".
Finally, they emphasize that their request stems from "a constructive and collaborative will."
