Madrid's British Council School was already constructing a new open-air extension to its cafeteria, and is now installing six pre-fabricated mobile classrooms. In the neighborhood of Leganés, Aben Hamza public school has a sports field of cracked concrete, and steel shutters over the windows. Aben Hamza public school is not seeing the same financial investment, and budgets are still being processed. "There's been no forward planning," says Laura Macgregor, an English teacher at a private school in Madrid, whose own children attend a public school in the city center. She fears that would leave them lagging behind their peers in private schools which may be able to stay open.

Source: CNN September 08, 2020 09:11 UTC