Carlos Yeray Lobato Aragón
(Re)politicizing the school means recognizing that politics is inherent to humanity: human beings only fully realize themselves in community, deliberating on the common good. Faced with a neoliberalism that commodifies freedom and fragments the individual, the school must become a democratic agora where every voice—families, students, teaching and non-teaching staff, and the surrounding community—is heard and participates in the decision-making process. This requires moving beyond the mere arithmetic representation of school boards: current formal quotas (e.g., one-third for families) mask the technocratic hegemony of professional elites and reduce participation to the management of consent. Authentic educational governance must be based on horizontal and flexible networks that articulate contextualized educational projects, promote social justice, and strengthen a pluralistic sense of "us." This means opening the institution to the community, creating spaces for ongoing dialogue, making minority identities visible, and fostering critical citizenship capable of (co)determining collective goals. Depoliticizing the school reduces it to an administrative branch; repoliticizing it establishes it as a bulwark against neoliberal homogenization and cultural colonialism, restoring education to its role as an engine of social transformation and a guarantor of dignity, diversity, and the common good.