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The San Lucas y María school, the only public center for infant and primary education that exists in the historic center of Toledo, is in luck. It is not every day that one turns 40 and, whoever has been through it, knows that this event marks a before and after in one's life, something like a rite of passage in which everything turns upside down.
Without pretending that things change excessively, that is what is happening to this school of education and values that is San Lucas y María, which is in full celebration of its 40th anniversary, for which it has organized a series of activities . Among them, as reported by the director of the center, Álvaro Cirujano Porreca, this Thursday the Toledo historian Rafael del Cerro Malagón will give a conference on his history at 18.30:XNUMX p.m. in the hall of the Royal Foundation of Toledo, located in the Victor Macho Museum .
Rafael del Cerro Malagon
Under the title 'The public schools of Toledo (1857-1981): The CEIP San Lucas and María', the conference by Rafael del Cerro Malagón, organized by the management of the center and by the AMPA, will make a historical record that goes from the old College of Doctrines of the city, located in the surroundings of the current building, to the school that now teaches children from all over the Toledo area.
The historian has told ABC that his talk will begin with what access to the master's degree was like in earlier times and will delve into the College of Doctrines of Toledo, which was supported by the city council to take in orphaned children, who were later sought a trade and that during their time of teaching they helped in religious celebrations, especially wholeros. Among some of those famous 'doctrines', it is said that there was El Greco's son, Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli.
From there, Del Cerro will make a meal for the Toledo schools of the XNUMXth century, for as long as they have Cuatro, one for each district, located in Zocodover, Cuatro Tiempos, Santa Isabel and Puerta del Cambrón. From that time, the researcher says that they were "very few, with few teachers and scarce resources", in addition to, as is obvious, differentiated by gender.
Already in the 1926th century, it will bring to mind the testimony of the journalist Luis Bello, who in XNUMX described the panorama of public schools in Toledo before the Spanish civil war, a time when the Teacher Training School and another in El Cambron . After the war, work began on new educational buildings and others later.
To focus the conference on the surroundings of the San Lucas y María school, the historian will show the characteristics of this area of the city, a humble neighborhood throughout its history and that in recent years has lost a good number of population Something What the center's management and AMPA are fighting against, precisely, calling on families to send their children to school here in order to repopulate and revitalize the historic center of Toledo.
