The municipality and the government are responsible for the plaster collapse on the 3rd GEL of Thessaloniki
“It took just a few days after schools opened for our fears about the condition of classrooms to be confirmed,” it said in a statement Association of Parents and Guardians of the Central Macedonia Region to today’s incident in which a large piece of plaster came off the ceiling of room 26 in the 3rd GEL of Thessaloniki, fortunately without injuring the student at the last desk as it fell directly behind him.
He emphasizes that by chance no one was injured since some students were absent and not sitting at the specific desks, in a school “to which the Regional Directorate of Central Macedonia and the Municipality of Thessaloniki have decided to move the Interpolar High School, although… “ Reactions from parents and teachers that highlighted the operational and infrastructural problems that already exist and will worsen with shared housing.”
He points out that “in August the municipality sent teams into the rooms partitioned off with plasterboard, while parents pointed out the problems that exist in the building and in the schoolyard.” Through all this, the services made promises for future interventions, because that The only thing they were interested in was creating space to set up the intercultural university.”
“The slogan of the banner that the parents had already hung in front of the school in the summer, “Schools are not camps for the soul, modern schools for all children”, unfortunately did not move the responsible authorities, so the specific incident occurred today, which his parents check and expose the community and the government,” he stresses, believing that “this incident is the result of the long-term abandonment of local governments and the chronic underfunding of education.”
That’s why it’s necessary here and now:
- Proof of suitability for all school buildings immediately. The absolutely necessary thorough inspection of all school units at all levels (static suitability – pre-seismic control – escape exits – fire protection – safe electrical installation – suitability in forecourts and assembly areas).
- Construction of new, safe and modern school buildings and modernization of school infrastructure to meet the increased educational demands of the 21st centuryu Century.
