"the cultural diversity in the classrooms of Ibiza is a reflection of the present society"

Representatives the educative community protest to the Administration to face the constant arrival of immigrant students to the scholastic centers of Ibiza and Formentera Representatives of the educative community demand more average humans and technical resources to face the constant arrival of immigrant students to the scholastic centers of Ibiza and Formentera. Thus he showed himself during the round table celebrated Thursday in the Daily Club of Ibiza, in the cycle ` Reflexions entorn of l´educació´ that organizes the Associació for the renovation of education system (APREP). Professors, parents and representatives of the educative Administration agreed in indicating that the cultural diversity of the schools is a reflexion of the present society, a reality, according to the intercultural mediator of the City council of Ibiza, Samia Mestassi, "is not new phenomenon but that now it is more evident because Spain has happened to be a receiving country of immigrants". Mestassi, that acted as moderator of the debate on the cultural diversity in the classrooms, emphasized that the arrival of immigrants to the schools "has caused changes in the educative community, that must be well managed to avoid problematic situations ". In this sense, the coordinator of the Phons Pitiús de Cooperació, Fine Darder, indicated that the school "is the suitable space to foment the intercultural values" and added that the coexistence and the respect towards other traditions different from ours "must be seen like something positive and not like a problem". On the other hand, the director of the public school of Sant Carles, Mercedes Ibarrola, and Joan Buades, professor of the institute of Sant Agustí, demanded more average resources to face the new educative necessities. "To accept the reality it is the departure point to foment the respect and the compression", explained Ibarrola. The school of Sant Carles organizes every year a series of cultural weeks that have the objective "to surpass racist expositions". On the other hand, Joan Buades, who talked about to the developed intercultural experience in the institute of Sant Agustí, assured that "the voluntarism of the professors cannot replace the lack of means of the administration". Buades stood out that Ibiza and Formentera counts on one of the highest levels of Spain as far as the number of foreign students (a 16.5% of the total of students are foreign) and explained that, in the tactical mission of the institute of Sant Agustí, twenty different nationalities coexist. On the other hand, the secretary of the federation of Parents of Students (FAPA), Paquita Ribas, indicated that this phenomenon "is enriching and does not have to be treated like a problem, but nowadays its badly organized". During the debate, the territorial delegate of Education, Marí Pillar, assured that from conselleria the average resources are put to face the new educative reality: "Resources it has, although they never are sufficient", said. Marí also defended "the right that the parents of the students who get to the island of Ibiza to choose the school where they want to register his children".


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"Macrobotellon" in Ibiza

More than one hundred young people were congregated last night in the Park Reina Sofía of Ibiza to drink in answer to the call sent by Internet and telephone messages to move people in 20 cities of the country. An wide police device watched the zone It was in the beginning like an urban legend. Everybody spoke of it but nobody found any sign. The accumulation of contradictory warnings with respect to the point of contact of ` botellón´ confused many young people who went from a place to another one looking for it from the 21.30 hours, when its beginning was predicted. Finally, on at eleven at night ` fiesta´ had congregated to more than one hundred adolescents in the Park Queen Sofía in Ibiza. Its number was growing per moments and at twelve already they arrived at 150, while others were still directed to the enclosure. Nevertheless, there was one who considered that they were still few: "This we have to repeat each weekend and to join more people", affirmed a girl with evident symptoms to be in the first stages of drunkenes. The assistants also complained the lack of music -" can't enter with cars we do not have neither radios nor ice" -, although indeed that deficiency was what the more the neighbors of the zone were thankful for, whom they did not have to protest by the noise. In fact, the behavior of the young people was in main lines very civic, getting even some groups from these to boo to those who broke bottles or glasses in the ground, according to related Leopold Llombart, councilman of Interior of the City council of Ibiza. Llombart had expressed hours before its fear to that the concentration of people and the alcohol degenerated in conflicting situations: "Although they drink, ten or fifteen young people in different sites do not worry to me as much as 150 in the same one". For that reason, the Consistorio destined an operative one of twenty local police to watch ` macrobotellón´. Members of the National Body of Police also were mobilized with preventive character. The concentration was, nevertheless, peacefull, and last night the agents limited themselves to make random identifications and to watch the content of the bags that carried the adolescents whom they tried to accede to the park like dissuasion measurement. Also they did recommendations to them so that the night of ` fiesta in Ibiza´ will finish well for all of them.

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