The damaged schools will receive resources from the Ministry of Education to repair the damages caused by thieves
J.Vicente Negrete School, located in El Molino. Photo: Courtesy
Héctor Ruiz Mejía – During the year 2021, three schools were victims of burglaries in the municipality of Jocotepec, one going without electricity for 90 days.
Alfonso Enrique Oliva Mojica, coordinator of Primary Education Development, said the Ministry of Education of Jalisco (SE) approved a total of approximately 377,590 pesos to restore the services of the affected schools in El Molino, Chantepec and in the municipal seat of Jocotepec.
The school that so far received the most support was Francisco I. Madero, located in the municipal seat, with a budget of approximately 189,000 pesos for its restoration due to the damages.
For the J. Encarnación Rosas school, located in Chantepec, the amount of 188,570 pesos was approved; while for the J. Vicente Negrete elementary school, located in El Molino, 20,000 pesos was granted, the latter of which was a bipartite fund, between the Secretariat and the municipality.
«We as the Secretariat, supported the school with materials, electrical wiring and plumbing networks mostly, and the municipality collaborated with labor,» said the official, regarding the support of the elementary school in El Molino.
Due to the theft of more than 300 meters of electrical wiring, El Molino’s J. Vicente Negrete elementary school spent about 90 days without electricity.
Mojica acknowledged that, despite the support to reestablish the electricity service in the schools, the stolen electronic equipment, as in the case of the El Molino elementary school (around 160,000 pesos in equipment such as projectors and computers) has not been covered.
However, he said that a request has been sent to the Federal Government to obtain the replacement of the equipment and thus be able to provide better quality education.
Finally, the official was optimistic about the forecasts regarding the return to classes this coming January, «with one hundred percent attendance, we believe that incidences of school robberies will decrease to almost nothing», he assured.
However, with the international alarms of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 causing schools to consider the return to virtual attendance, schools may once again be in the sights of thieves.
Translated by Kerry Watson
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