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The Inclusive Education Yes, Special Also Platform, which groups people with disabilities, has demanded this Thursday the resignation of the Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, for responding in Congress "disrespecting" the deputy of the PP

Juan José Matarí

after Let him tell about the experience of his daughter with Down syndrome in one of these specialized centers.

"He has responded in an absolutely mean and miserable way, inappropriate for the position he represents," they denounce in this group.

The bad ways of the minister have also been censored by the PP, Ciudadanos and Vox.

Matarí had accused the minister of wanting to "disappear" this educational model where

37,000 children study

and has reported that daughter

Andrea

, who is 25 years old, "has received all her education" in a center that "is an extraordinary tool for integration ".

The young woman has completed a career at the

Autonomous University of Madrid

and is working, she explained, and "her inclusion is full because her training is adapted to her abilities."

"Mr. Matarí, where do you come from?" Celaá replied, unleashing laughter from the PSOE bench.

"How far do you come from? You have no contact, neither with the educational world, nor with parents, nor with children, nor with teachers. You don't know what you're talking about," she pointed out angrily.

"Why would it be outside the

Constitution to

combat school segregation, of any nature whatsoever?", He added, wrongly implying that special education centers discriminate or segregate students.

"And why would it be outside the Constitution to try to put many more resources in ordinary centers to deal with special education precisely?", He added.

The new educational law, the Lomloe, calls for dedicating more resources to educate students with disabilities in ordinary schools, which makes families fear that this preference will lead to abandonment or neglect of specialized centers.

Why?

Because Celaá has not specified the economic items that it wants to allocate to each one, because its Government advocates that students with disabilities go preferably to ordinary school and for not having wanted to change an article that they consider ambiguous.

The Government denies, however, that it is going to close the special centers and ensures that the transfer of students from one place to another will occur whenever the parents so decide and only in cases where it is feasible.

The platforms have turned to the Petitions Committee of

the European Parliament

, which has requested reports from the

European Commission

and the Ministry of Education to see if this law violates the rights of these families.

"What happens is that you are not defending equality, you are defending privilege. And when you say freedom, you are saying that freedom is cut," Celaá snapped at Matarí.

"Once again, the minister has been far below the demands of her position. She has once again neglected and disrespected thousands of people with intellectual disabilities and their families, showing an absolute lack of empathy and humility. In addition , He has once again shown a tremendous lack of knowledge of the work that is done in special education schools. The Platform has offered him on several occasions to visit one of these centers, but he has never agreed, "say sources from the parents' collective.

The Platform has asked the

Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (Cermi)

,

Plena Inclusión

and

Down Spain

to publicly position themselves before these "these very serious statements" of the Minister of Education.

These three groups defend, like Celaá, the inclusion of students with disabilities in ordinary centers, instead of their schooling in specialized centers.

Deputies from the Popular Party,

Vox

and

Ciudadanos

have made the minister ugly with her response, according to Europa Press.

The PP spokesperson in the Lower House,

Cuca Gamarra

, has written on Twitter: "She will be the minister of education but what a lack of education", while

Ana Pastor

, deputy secretary of Social Policy of the PP, has described the attitude of Celaá.

On the part of Vox, the deputy

Víctor Sánchez del Real

has sent a hug to Matarí and his family and has censored the response that Celaá has given him and "the laughter of the PSOE bench."

For

María Muñoz

, Cs deputy, what the minister has done is "humiliate" Matarí in a "totally inhuman" way.

"What do they want to turn Congress into?", He asked himself, after recalling the "mockery" of a PP deputy "towards people with mental health problems" when the leader of

Más País

,

Íñigo Errejón

, addressed this matter in last week's plenary session.

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