Prospective first-year students in safety vest forward at the beginning of the school year starting suitcases with equipment for safe routes to school and to nature. Part of the opposition representatives but it takes a pleasing gesture would rather see Address assistance to needy pupils.
“Project Safely to School and to nature; we want to give children not just a kind of basic equipment of school supplies. This step contribute to gaining awareness of how to behave correctly and safely on the road to perhaps set off for the first time alone to school, “said Regional Councilor for Education Tanya Formosa (KSCM).
Opposition councilors, however, argued that pupils and schools would need other support, such as giving schools create scholarship programs for children from less well-off families.
“For some children it is difficult to pay the necessary ski course. Such a school bag with reflective stripes yet stumble somewhere behind the wardrobe, “said councilor (ODS).
Another opposition member Jeri Vesey (KDU-CSL) suggested that the region has created a fund to support pupils from socially disadvantaged families and to put him half a million crowns. But he found understanding only eighteen representatives, eighteen abstained and five were against, so his proposal bogged down.
“The suitcase is not a rucksack, not priority for utilities, but focuses on safety features. We have discussed the matter with SCUBA. We started up the ongoing action, “said Councilman Formosa.
According to her, this case gets 6,500 first grade students. The value of the case is about one hundred crowns, but the region will reach even more partners to pay additional equipment.
Starter briefcase eventually supported the thirty-five representatives and five abstentions. This year, the children will get free in case equipment in school, such as pencils, crayons, markers, block or snack box, but also objects with safety features.
It will be a reflective vest, reflective tape and stickers that can be attached or adhered to the bag. It will include a children’s magazine, which will be given to just traffic safety.
Dour Kralove zoo gives children schedules; state police and be sip provide coloring books. A similar project is already working in the Highlands two years, South Bohemia joined last year.