The Generalitat allocates 200,000 euros to Sagunt for education, a figure that sounds like a lot in a press release, but in practice is a pittance. Building a new school, a high school, and renovating a vocational training center requires millions, not pocket change. The PP boasts of a general increase in the education budget, but the money for specific projects does not arrive. Without a commitment of funds for the coming years, these infrastructures will remain shelved, waiting for the next electoral cycle.
School infrastructure: the bottleneck of technological vocational training 🏗️
While politicians make promises, vocational training centers still lack the workshops and equipment demanded by the labor market. Modern vocational training needs CNC machinery, 3D printers, robotics labs, and high-speed networks. Without investment in bricks and cables, it is impossible to train the technicians that industry requires. Sagunt, with its logistics and manufacturing hub, is the perfect example: vocational training students receive theoretical classes in prefabricated modules, while companies look for profiles that cannot be trained in a classroom with wooden benches and a chalkboard.
The pending issue: how to pass without building a single classroom 📚
Politicians have discovered the magic formula: announce historic investments at press conferences and then forget about the files in a drawer. It is the law of least effort: 200,000 euros is enough to buy digital whiteboards and a couple of projectors, but not to lay the foundations of a high school. Children remain in temporary huts, teenagers in prefabricated modules, and teachers juggle resources from the 90s. Politicians trust that citizens will forget, but temporary huts are not forgotten; they are endured. And in the meantime, the pending issue remains unresolved, even though the course has already started.