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The Socialist councilor Ginés Diaz, calls for making a detailed study of schedules and school bus routes to ensure compliance with the principle of equality of opportunity, especially with children who live in the rural

Gines Diaz socialist councilor asked today that the City of Lorca promote a meeting of school principals Lorca agree a satisfactory solution to the families of students using school transport service and those who are causing "serious inequalities. "

Diaz explained that the generalization of the continuous shift in schools has to have different activities for students using this service, which the Ministry of Education has not assimilated the cafeteria free of charge.

According to the socialist mayor, every director has addressed this situation with the regional administration "as it has been."

Thus, there are centers where children who reside more than two miles from school and have, therefore, the right to free school transport, have to wait for those who do have room, so they reach their home near four in the afternoon without eating.

In other cases, the school bus picks up at 14:00 hours so that parents or mothers who have to travel to school to pick up their children who do eat at school.

The disparity of views, according to Diaz, breaks the principle of equal opportunities for children, especially for those living in rural areas.

The councilman noted that there are already schools that have to travel an hour by bus every day to travel routes that could be done in twenty minutes, because the regional governments racanea when establishing routes. "

According to the PSOE the Ministry of Education has "prolonging the problem since 2007" and said "its leaders seem more concerned with spending cuts that offer decent services to students and their families."

Source: Grupo Socialista, Ayuntamiento de Lorca