The association of mothers and fathers of school students Lopez Dieguez has joined to school riot of educational centers that is convened every first Friday of the month in many cities in Spain and whose objective is to claim safer and more suitable school environments for schoolchildren who go to school on foot or by bicycle.
The concentration, which has been located in the street San Andres stream, It has been organized together with the teachers and students of the school. Schoolchildren, under the supervision and help of their parents and teachers, have carried out traditional games such as dancing the diabolo or the Chinese disco, gymkhana where they have played with hoops and skipping rope, they have played sports games such as volleyball, badminton and tennis, as well as painting the floor with chalk or planting lavender and marigolds in the flower beds of the trees around the school. The Moreno Brothers have also participated in these days to teach the little ones a gymkhana of juggling and balance.
One of the mothers of López Diéguez Zahira Salamanca He explained that “with these activities and this concentration we intend to raise awareness in the neighborhood and the population of Cordoba to be able to have a city and neighborhoods that are friendlier to children, an environment where they can play and go to school without worrying neither the children nor the parents” .
Salamanca has highlighted this school is the first public school in Córdoba to join the state movement school riot and with their adhesion they intend to “motivate and encourage other centers to join this movement, in order to have safer and more sustainable neighbourhoods, since pollution is also a danger for youth”.
“The initiative began more than a year ago, in the 2020-2021 academic year, when a survey was carried out with mothers and fathers to see the needs that existed around the school, to give more space to safer roads so that boys and girls go to school calmly, and be responsible with the environment, creating a sustainable environment for the neighbors”, he pointed out.
The family association carried out a survey among the parents of the students on how they accessed the center and more than 80% answered that they walked to school, while 5% used the bicycle, while 6% went by car.
Now the challenge is improve access routes to schoolto reduce the risks pointed out by the families and gain space for pedestrians on the city streets, so that citizens also reduce car trips and use more sustainable means, such as cycling.
“With the Departments of Education and Mobility of the City Council, the installation of pedestrian priority signs, speed limits of 20 kilometers per hour, overhangs, bollards and streets have been closed to traffic have been achieved,” he indicated.
Another of the measures that he has cited has been the change of location of containers to improve visibility at intersections and reduce risks, the painting of pedestrian crossings highlighting that they are paths to school and the safe routes to the López Diéguez school have been marked by means of vertical signs. in the shape of pencils.
After that, this mother has asked that this motivation and these changes can reach other neighborhoods and schools, that they can join this campaign and have a welcoming and child-friendly city, while sustainable with the environment.
