North Corfu Parents & Guardians Association: "We demand immediate action for the obvious"
CORFU. "We are asking for the umpteenth time since the beginning of the school year to speed up the procedures so that all routes are immediately restored and no child is deprived of school, not even one more day."
The North Corfu Parents and Guardians Association issued the following statement, informing about developments regarding the school transportation problem:
"In the last few days, an effort has been made to get an official update on school transportation by the Ionian Islands Region, but we have not received any specific data. Today, October 11th, after contacting the principals of all schools in North Corfu, official data was collected by the representatives and the Board of the Association on which routes started just today and which remain unsuccessful. Specifically:
- 2nd Special Primary School-Nursery: 2 unsuccessful
- Agros Junior High & High School: 4 started, 2 unsuccessful
- Agros School Centre: 3 started, 1 unsuccessful
- Velonades School Centre: 3 started, 3 unsuccessful
- Amphipagiton Junior High School: 2 started, 1 unsuccessful
- Avliotes Primary School: 2 started
- Karousades Primary School: 1 started, 1 unsuccessful
- Karousades Junior High School: 1 started, 1 unsuccessful
- 2nd Thinalia School Centre: 2 unsuccessful
- 1st Thinalia School Centre: 3 started, 1 unsuccessful
- Thinalia Junior High School: 2 started, 1 unsuccessful
- Kassiopi Junior High School: 3 unsuccessful
- Kassiopi Primary School: 2 unsuccessful
It is unthinkable that in mid-October we are still asking and demanding the obvious from the Regional Authority, i.e. that all children go to their schools every day and are transported safely by school buses to and from school.
Many children from the 2nd Special Primary School have not yet been to their school since the beginning of the school year and in other schools many children are absent on days when they cannot somehow be transported.
All secondary schools are on the verge of holding sit-ins in protest of the daily inconvenience for pupils and their parents. The latter continue to work and are outraged and exhausted with the daily struggle of trying to figure out how to get their children to and from school. The risk of accidents due to the overcrowding outside the schools will continue to exist if all routes are not restored immediately.
We are asking for the umpteenth time since the beginning of the school year to speed up the procedures so that all routes are immediately restored and no child is deprived of school, not even one more day.
Please let us know immediately, in detail and with a specific timetable, how you will manage the unsuccessful routes. Will you put the new law 5056/2023 into force, where article 51 allows you to make a direct award in case of an unsuccessful tender procedure or will you proceed with a re-advertisement of the unsuccessful routes? Is there interest from transport companies for these routes to make a direct award and, if not, how do you intend to manage this?
As parents we have exhausted the option of dialogue and demand immediate action for our children's right to be at their school every day and to be transported safely."
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