Por Mallorca wants to create temporary reception classrooms for newly arrived students
The proposal was created to address the structural demographic pressure suffered by the Balearic Islands, a reality reflected in the overcrowding of schools and institutes.
PalmThe general coordinator of the Coalition for Mallorca, Joan Serra, and the island councilor Antoni Salas presented a motion this Wednesday that will be debated tomorrow in the plenary session of the Consell de Mallorca (Island Council). The proposal aims to address the structural demographic pressure affecting the Balearic Islands, a reality directly reflected in the overcrowding of schools and institutes. The central initiative of the motion is the creation of 35 temporary or reception classrooms distributed throughout the island, staffed by specialized personnel. Unlike the current model, the coalition proposes that these spaces be located outside of schools and have their own interdisciplinary program. This design seeks to manage the arrival of newly arrived students in an orderly manner and prevent the responsibility for their integration from falling exclusively on an already overwhelmed regular teaching staff. During the presentation, Joan Serra emphasized the need to adapt the system to the demographic reality of the archipelago. "We are the territory with the highest population growth in all of Europe, and the system cannot continue to function with stopgap measures," he said. Therefore, the party is presenting a proposal to ensure that "the arrival of newly arrived students is orderly and effective" through temporary reception classrooms. They say they want these classrooms to be "integrative tools, never segregative, that give students the necessary skills to successfully integrate into the mainstream system." For his part, Councilor Antoni Salas emphasized the importance of political consensus to pass this measure, which he considers "vital for maintaining educational quality and social cohesion" in Mallorca. Salas made a direct appeal to the other political parties: "We ask the other political groups in the Council of Mallorca to support this motion." The proposal anticipates that this new model will be implemented starting in the 2026-2027 academic year, with a special budget allocation and technical monitoring to evaluate its results within six months.
