- Ordizia is the municipality of the CAV with a higher migration rate of 10,000 inhabitants, with a rate of 17.4%. With regard to education data, this rate is even higher. For example, 21.7% of the families of students enrolled in Children and Primary have their origin abroad. We live this diversity as a very positive value and a wealth. It makes us better citizens.
However, the distribution of pupils between the two schools in Ordizia shows a clear imbalance. Between 2 and 12 years, 41.5% of students from the Basque Country are in public schools and 58.5% in private concerted schools. However, 87.1% of students from families of foreign origin are enrolled in public schools and only 12.9% are enrolled in Ikastola. Consequently, 64.2% of student families have their origin in public schools and 36.8% have their origin abroad. In the field of knowledge, 94.2% of student families originate in the Basque Country and 5.8% originate abroad. This imbalance is even more evident in Early Childhood Education.
This imbalance greatly hampers the conditions for a balanced management of diversity in schools and in the municipality and, consequently, the appropriate educational work, coexistence, inclusion and the process of Euskaldunization.
This imbalance greatly hampers the conditions for a balanced management of school and local diversity and, consequently, adequate educational work, coexistence, inclusion and the process of Euskaldunisation.
In this sense, it has had a direct impact and, for the future, it may become even more unbalanced by the situation in which the creation of the 3rd Child Education Class at Ikastola Jakintza is located, which is why a significant number of students from Euskal Herria have been educated and have not been assigned to the Public School. We find it incomprehensible and absolutely deplorable that the Basque Government, in a totally irregular manner and against the registration decree itself, has approved 11 new license plates to the Ikastola Jakintza, modifying the planning criteria in the middle of the course and agreeing to the ikastola a new classroom for the 2019-20 course at the levels of 3 and 4 years of Early Childhood Education. Even more incomprehensible, with places free of schooling in the local public school. If these students had been assigned to the public school, in Child Education the situation of the public school would have been balanced between 14 and 17 points. On the contrary, with the fact that ikastola has classroom 3, with the possibility of schooling students from families of foreign origin, the local imbalance is hardly reduced, maintaining the imbalance in the public school and increasing the imbalance in the medium and long term.
These decisions, together with the perpetuation and increase of the imbalance described in the beginning, make coexistence in the people, balanced plurality, inclusion and Euskaldunization even more difficult.
To the extent that we are committed to the present and future of our people and the public school, we ask the Department of Education to channel this obvious imbalance that we live in our schools and in our people and to make decisions that will help us to live together and to manage diversity well. In the same vein, we call on the authorities, agents and citizens of Ordizia to do everything in their power to properly manage the diversity of our people, which is the wealth of all, to enrich us and to improve coexistence and inclusion.