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Adios My first trip to school half a century

The month of January 2008 I published a post about teaching in Moal, which had a brief look at its evolution through the century XX, to conclude by saying that the school's future was very bleak due to the low birth rate and the small number of students who came to it, it was 07-08 during the course of only five children.

A provision of the Ministry of Education and Science, published in June 2009, impacted on the problems that arose in Cangas del Narcea, and restructured the council based educational network in the sharp decline that had taken the school population. To justify himself, gave the example of the Bar Association of Vega de Rengos which went from 150 students and fifteen units in the 80's to less than 50 students and four units currently. Similar case occurred with the school uniform of Moal, that about 50 students went to 6, which currently should be.

The Department arranged a series of measures to restructure schools and make better use of human resources, having to either create a Rural School Package, which under the name "Rengo", integrate Colegio Publico de Vega and school Rengos Moal, which had hitherto depended on the CRA Coto Narcea. Therefore, the CRA "Rengo" would consist of the Colegio de Vega and schools and Moal Gedrez. However, the school has taken this year Moal closing, closing almost certainly be final. What happened to reach this situation, when they should attend class 6 students: 4 of the same people and 2 of a family of Las Tablizas?.

The decision to close the school was an easy task for the Ministry for the choice made after some parents to send their children to school in Vega de Rengos the detriment of the Moal school. In this way everything happened and the chronicle of death foretold that "the closure of the school, came early. I'm off to assess whether the opinion that these parents took to send their children to Vega is wrong or right, it is a very personal decision and safer than before taking it thought it was the most suitable for shows created for their offspring. Besides, we all knew that the future that awaited him was short, but one is left with the feeling that the people have lost some of its insides. Each year that passes is more dwarfing. Some time ago we were running out of the bars, shop, after the priest left us, the people living in the parish church but was not in it, then missed the bustle of young people when entering or leaving school or while playing for the streets, followed by some doorways closed Moal ......... in short, that is dying slowly and over his death resembles that of old man who has completed the cycle of life and has no cure, like so many rural communities.

Going back to school say that gone are 50 years of history, which for me began with the teacher Dorothy, one to which preferred the bludgeon and the word applied the maxim that the rod and spoil, blood to which responded more than once with a massive flight of the class, being chased with a hazel - how much used! - to return to the fold. For our part we put not much, maybe just the opposite, and thus arose the saying "ugly face Dorotea school run by the wets." At that time also comes to my mind the egg that each student should necessarily lead to the teacher every Monday morning (surely you remember any more of this story). As expected it was his place to the people, the day of departure a flying echoed through the valley of Moal to celebrate.

A Dorotea followed many good teachers that left fond and great memories and friendships. But the most important school were the hundreds of students and their classroom sheltered people prepared for profit: now occupying some positions in the worlds of engineering, education or health, to name some examples, and other skilled workers in other public or private estates.

school within the district Cascarino

now only hope that the building housing the school, built by the people back into the hands of their neighbors and to remain meeting point for all meetings and activities carried out and will not occur as Oballe, where years ago the council was in charge of selling to the highest bidder.

* I had some photos that would be the last school students Moal, and the building, but the card from the camera has played me a trick.