About a hundred students, teachers and parents focused on Wednesday morning by the School of the National Conservatory Music (EMCN), in Lisbon, in protest against the building of the degradation state. Students come to close the school with padlocks, which have since been removed by the PSP.
In addition to locks, were placed in the windows of building in Bairro Alto posters that can read messages such as: “I am the National Conservatory”, “We have the right to study music without taking the head with a brick”, “Do not let our house collapse “or” We just want to be safe in school. ” Protesters demand a solution to the problem by the Ministry of Education.
According to Lusa, by 9:45 a.m. two elements of PSP cut the locks that had been placed by the students during the night, which was accompanied by intervention cries of protest as “the united school will never be defeated” and “win, win”.
Ana Mafalda Pernao, director of EMCN, has expressed its solidarity with the demonstration, ensuring understand why it takes place. “The problem now is that we want the Ministry of Education talk to us, which has not happened yet. I received an email on Friday to give leave to seek three quotes for completion of the work, but no more than that, “said Ana Mafalda Pernao.
According to the school director, who points out that the property in Bairro Alto complete 180 years in 2015, “we have a situation that is not only the patch holes, but a deeper intervention in the building. “We need to have a frank conversation with the minister, face-to-face,” concluded Ana Mafalda Pernao.
“We want to see resolved the whole situation of security issues, the works that have been going on for some year old. We want to talk with Nuno Crato, do not want to answer through no role “also said Bruno Cochat, a professor at the Conservatory.
Now Ana Barros, mother of a student of the 5 year integrated, said he was” no surprise “that came to the school and saw all the” apparatus “, stressing that one day this had to happen. “The school needs work 70 years ago. The Ministry of Education has to solve this problem, which has never been seen anywhere. It is the only public school in the country with these conditions. But ultimately, what the Minister wants? Do not want to form singers and musicians in this country? “Asked the mother. “Maybe now, with this reminder from parents, students and teachers, the Minister in listen and resolve the situation,” he declared.
Also Gonçalo Mota, 16, student integrated education, explained that it was the students who decided to close the school to demand better conditions, advancing not be possible to continue the insecurity that has remained until now.
This protest comes after the EMCN have been notified by the Lisbon City, following a survey which would have to close ten classrooms from 16 February, for security reasons. Another survey conducted by the municipality in mid-2014 had found that there was a risk of falling elements of the facades, “unhealthy” and “some uncertainty regarding the risk of fire” inside the building.
This Tuesday held a general meeting of school, where parents and students decided to support the decision of the board to require the Ministry of Education to find a definitive solution to the Building degradation problems. At the time, the ministry of Nuno Crato forwarded to PUBLIC that “the Directorate General of School facilities, through the Directorate of Services Lisbon and Tagus Valley, has closely monitored the situation the Music School of the National Conservatory.”
“We have made two technical visits to the building, most recently last week, has been drawn up an inventory of essential interventions,” the ministry through its press office, stressing that the “school board was informed of the activities of the procedures necessary to make such interventions as soon as possible, through the presentation of three budget proposals. “
Mafalda Pernao reacted insisting that” no follow “and that” budgets are patches “.
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