A judge has decided in favour of the teachers at the Escuela Municipal de Música de Almuñécar and ordered that the Town Hall must compensate them.

In effect, the Town Hall is considered ‘vicariously liable’ and thus has to make good the outstanding salaries and compensation owed to the music teachers by the Asociación Todo Cultura, in order for the court sentence of the 15th of June be carried out.

This comes as no surprise to the Town Hall as it was made known in a Council Meeting on the 9th of October.

Despite the clarity expressed in the court sentence, which underlines the failure of Todo Cultura in its management of the Escuela Municipal – teachers that neither received their salaries nor holidays – the school remains shut and there is no prospect of it reopening in the near future.

The pupils’ mothers have been complaining for several weeks that not only have the classes still not begun, but that new pupil enrollment etc has not even taken place. In fact, they have just about given this school year up for lost.

The fact is that the pupil fees barely make up 30% of what it costs to run the school; the other 70% comes from public grants… and it is precisely the public funding that is missing – without it, the school is doomed to oblivion, or in the very least, a very, very delayed reopening.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)