The Sant Felip Neri school goes to its square to ask to enter the public system

The students of the school eating the sweet ham sandwich in the Sant Felip Neri square have been during the hardest years of tourist pressure on the Gòtic an essential breath of fresh air. The verification that beyond a square with an undeniable charm, Saint Philip Neri It was still that, a space in which to play, in addition to a schoolyard with 63 years of history. A school deeply rooted in the neighborhood whose families they want to protect, knowing that by protecting their children’s school they are also doing it with their neighborhood, an enclave especially in need of community living spaces. With this objective they have concentrated this Thursday afternoon after class with a clear motto: ‘Sant Felip Neri, public school!’.

The objective of the families, shared by the very foundation that manages the school, currently concerted, by the neighborhood fabric and by the two public administrations involved – a more than remarkable consensus – is that the school becomes part of the public network to secure their future. If so, furthermore, Gothic would win their first line of public secondary educationsince the Saint Philip Neri it is already a school institute -offers up to the fourth year of ESO- and currently the neighborhood lacks an institute, one of the historical demands of its neighbors to rooting young people in the neighborhood (one of the key factors in recipe against gentrification).

Social cohesion

“Families have seen how in recent years our neighborhood has been losing their referents, its local commercial fabric and also many neighbors. In this context, this school and its square full of children have been an element of essential social cohesion and that we cannot let ourselves get lost,” says the statement read by a representative of the families, who ask the owners of the spaces, the Congregation of the Oratori of Sant Felip Nerifounders of the college, who continue renting them as you have done so far and, “regardless of their ownership.” “Only in this way will we guarantee their transition to public school, preserve the educational project, the right to education of our children and young people and that in this way the legacy of Saint Philip Neri stay alive,” the statement continued.

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From the AFA of the center they insist on thanking “the work done by the different owners of the school from its foundation until today” and underline that their wish is that the school goes to the public network “maintaining its educational project and the values ​​that have made it a benchmark”, something that, they say, it also shares the teaching team, management and ownership, the Board of Trustees of the Torres i Bages Foundation.

This Thursday’s concentration only aims to make present in the neighborhood, without which the school is not understood, the determined will of the families to continue there and join the network of public schools in the territory. The Gothic already has two reference public primary schools, such as Àngel Baixeras and Escola Drassanes.