The Government of the Canary Islands has suspended classes in non-university education centers on Wednesday and Friday - Thursday is a holiday - due to the high temperatures that hit the Canary archipelago.
The Minister of Education, Poli Suárez, who has justified the measure "out of responsibility", after the demands of several centers in which fainting and episodes of heat stroke have been reported, has advanced that they will immediately begin to develop a protocol to act. in upcoming episodes of high temperatures.
The idea is to have this protocol in a matter of days or weeks, the counselor indicated in statements to the media.
Decision that has been made public on a day in which the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has announced that the maximum temperatures will once again exceed 34 degrees Celsius this Tuesday, and the minimum temperatures will barely drop below 24.
The haze accompanies the high temperatures these days, and in municipalities on the islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife and La Gomera, health risk warnings due to high temperatures have been issued.
The Minister of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, Poli Suárez, has said that the decision to suspend classes has also been taken taking into account the maximum alert due to the risk of forest fires in El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma, Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
Suárez has declared that the situation is "unsustainable" in many schools in the Canary Islands, and has indicated that he has received messages and calls from directors and officials of parents' associations, as well as unions, with whom he has also spoken before taking the decision. decision.
He has insisted on the need to have an action protocol for upcoming situations of high temperatures, and given the possibility of teaching classes electronically, he has stated that it is currently "complicated."
The counselor has also spoken about educational infrastructures, and has reiterated that there has been a paralysis in their renewal, so that the majority do not meet the conditions to tackle situations of high temperatures.
In two months "we cannot solve" the problem of abandonment of "many legislatures," added the counselor, who added that there are many barracks, which came to cover needs such as expansion of centers but now they are "many years old and in poor condition." regrettable".
Poli Suárez has raised the need for central and regional administrations, in collaboration with councils and city councils, to set priorities in educational infrastructure.
