How the Ancín school saved the fact of belonging to the rural and Basque world
- In the past, it was a small town and the public school had to be closed because the children of the town went to the schools of the cities. In order to attract the students, they decided to implement model D in Euskera, to which it should be added that in times of pandemic a greater value is recognized to rural schools: the number of students has doubled in two courses.
In the face of the critical situation of the public school Ancín Lokiz in Navarra, the parents and educators decided to turn it around: Model D was implemented in the center, with the objective of making the offer more attractive, going from 22 students in two courses to 46. Of these 46 students, the majority are working on model D (24 students) and another 12 have maintained model A (Spanish).
Students no longer go to schools in larger cities, because parents like their children to learn in Basque and do so in a small rural school. In addition, people in the city have gone to town during the pandemic. This was explained by the director of Lokiz in an interview given to the Bilbao News Journal. “Here the ratios are smaller and we can work on more active methodologies. In a rural school, the closeness is greater, the families are closer and the norms are more flexible”.
They expect that the number of students will grow and that the current center, with two classrooms and a third smaller and without space for further expansion, will remain small, studying the possibility of building a larger center to accommodate the new generations of the environment.
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