Meanwhile, over in Bubión – yes, there is life outside Lanjarón – the junior school is doubling as a courthouse for the Justice of the Peace. The PP, bless them, are demanding that the regional education authorities – which snuggles in the clutches of their Klingon foe, the PSOE – should provide a new school as the old one is both too small and completely obsolete.
The regional conservative MP, Lidia Reyes, was keen to be photographed inspecting the offending building, the CP Barranco de Poqueira de Bubión, which caters for 39 pupils. “It is incomprehensible that the Bubión junior school, which was built over 40 years (there’s a coincidence, so was she! Meoowww) crams ten children into 10 sq/m and shared with the local JP,” she said. Some would argue that you need a JP, if not a hanging Judge, to keep school kids in order these days, of course, but that is beside the point. She further points out that the ceiling is slowly falling down, there is no staff room for the four permanent teachers and that there is no school library. Even the toilets, she points out, leave much to be desired. She concludes that the Junta de Andalucía have forgotten about La Alpujarra, in a ‘Herculean manner.’[mappress]