The Canary Islands has the horrific honor of being the European zone with the highest index of obesity and diabetes.Not only of adults.
A recent study sponsored by The Economist stressed the alarming fact that 44% of Canarian children are overweight.
The result, 12 -year -old children with hypertension or diabetes.Bad diet is one of the causes of this social drama.The other, sedentary lifestyle.
The Canary Islands also accumulate the worst school failure indices of the country, according to the data of the PISA report.And that despite that educational expense (today descending) that came to consume a third of the autonomous budget.Money invested, among other things, in institutes and in attached sports infrastructures.
Neither the one nor the other prevent, however, that there are schools and institutes in the Canary Islands with closed or infrautilized sports courts.
In some cases because the director of the day simply does not feel like attending the requests of sports clubs to socially profitable the infrastructure paid by taxpayers.
In others because, such as social meanness sometimes it has no roof, there are neighbors who boycott the practice of child and youth sports because it generates noise.
But above all, because there are incompetent public managers, unable to mediate, negotiate, agree and ultimately ensure that no public court is closed because there is a indolent director or a neighbor hypersensitive to the voices of children when they play.
Both things happen in the Institutes of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, without the political leaders of this our community, their shame falling.It is a great social career to consent to the underutilization of public courts when four out of ten Canarian children prepare to be future hearts of the heart.
But spray the most diabolical surrealism that, with clubs encouraging children's and youthful sport, they are put on legs on the street and that children are given with the door of the court in their noses.
That is exactly what the territorial director of Education allowed last February when he threw the Las Palmas Basketball Club of the Sports Pavilion of La Minilla Institute for a neighborhood protest for noise.He had the option to think and negotiate.But it was easier to close.
The hill condemned 160 players, children and adolescents, to return home or to train precariously in a public park.
And he wanted the bad fortune that, in one of those training, the little ones witnessed a drug raid in an annexed gardens.
But who cares, what is what child or youth sport is about shooting because the basty referee's whistle.