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Framed in the Absenteeism Plan, it is possible thanks to the impulse of the City Council and the financing of Caixabank

The Fénix Project, which offers alternatives so that the students sanctioned without going to their educational center does not lose the school rhythm and can improve its behavior, will continue in march another year.

This has been confirmed this morning, after the renewal of a collaboration agreement between the City of Santomera, promoter of the initiative through Municipal Plan against Absenteeism, Abandonment and School Failure, Obra Social La Caixa, which will provide the 4,500 euros needed for its implementation, and the cultural association La Aldea de las Artes, responsible for carrying out the planned activities.

This initiative is being applied since last year and had its predecessor in the Aula Fénix, a pilot experience also emerged from the Absenteeism Plan and now protocolized.

In practice, it means that the students of primary and secondary temporarily expelled attend each week to six teaching hours, divided into two sessions, during which they will advance in the curricular contents that their classmates are studying at that time and will participate in workshops to deepen in the reasons that explain his bad behavior.

In the opinion of the Councilor for Education, María José Medina, teacher by profession, "the expulsion, by itself, is not an effective tool." It is of vital importance that, along with the punishment, there is a process of reconstruction and reintegration, which is what we propose through the Phoenix Project ".

"Since we began to govern we are turning to education, and this is another example of this," says the mayor, Inma Sánchez Roca, who also highlighted the extraordinary acceptance of the centers involved, "which have repeatedly requested us occasions that we gave continuity to this initiative ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Santomera