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The Balearic Government continues to boycott any attempt to obtain information on the language in which the subjects are taught in the schools of the Islands.
Three months after the Ombudsman has claimed all the data, the Executive of the socialist Francina Armengol turns a deaf ear and refuses to account for the extreme Catalanization in Balearic public education.
Before the silence of Armengol and his partners of United We Can and the ecosoberanistas of Més,
Francis
co Fernández Marugán has been forced to make a new claim, now urgently, to clarify whether the rights of students and their parents in education on the islands are being violated.
In the notification dated September 30, to which EL MUNDO has had access, it complains about the "delay in receiving the information" by the Balearic Ministry of Education and communicates its decision to require the "urgent referral of the same ». The intervention of the Ombudsman takes place as a result of the PLIS complaint.
Education, please registered last June, in which the teachers' association warned that the vast majority of the linguistic projects of the centers ignore the state and autonomous regulations that require that Spanish be expressly considered as a vehicular language for non-linguistic education and to guarantee the right to free choice in the first education (up to 2nd grade), among other breaches.
Since 2016, the Government of Armengol has prevented the exercise of the right to free choice of language implemented in the previous legislature of the PP of José Ramón Bauzá.
It has eliminated the box for teaching in Spanish and obliges parents to take on linguistic projects - the vast majority with immersion in Catalan - in the registration forms, in view of the laziness of the centers and the Ministry, the teachers' association, which defends school as a place of learning and apolitical, carried out its own study of the linguistic projects collected that covered part of 2019 and 2020. In it, it concluded that "the vast majority" ignores the state and regional regulations that require Spanish to be used in at least 25% of the subjects and in at least one core subject, apart from Spanish Language.
73% of the projects analyzed do not include the freedom of choice of the first language of instruction, while the rest do mention it, although without detailing to the parents how to request it.
93% of nursery schools and 80% of primary schools skip the obligation to do at least 25% of classes in Spanish and the use of Spanish is "residual" in extracurricular activities.
In June, the Ombudsman accepted PLIS 'claim and asked the Balearic Government for all the information on the events denounced.
The three months of deadline have passed and he has not answered. Asked for his administrative silence, the Ministry of Martí March confirms that Fernández Marugán has requested "a report on questions of legality of the language projects of the educational centers."
He says that this document is being prepared and will forward it "as soon as possible";
excuse his delay in that the month of August is non-working.
The Ombudsman, however, does not ask for a report on the issues of legality of language projects but to clarify the cornering of Spanish in classrooms and the violation of the right to free choice of language, among other issues denounced by PLIS .
Contrary to the criteria of the Ministry, Fernández Marugán does consider that the term has expired. The Ombudsman has also addressed the High Educational Inspectorate in the Balearic Islands, which did respond to his request.
Its director, Irene García Sureda, dismissed the matter denying the normative obligation to teach 25% of the classes in Spanish, ignoring several judicial decisions ratified by the Supreme Court that recognize the use of Spanish as a vehicular language in Catalan schools. the first time that the Ombudsman meets the indifference of the Armengol Executive.
In December 2017, she began a performance at the request of a mother who requested that her children be able to take at least one subject in Spanish at the Can Raspalls public school in Ibiza.
The Balearic Government ignored the information requirements for more than a year.
Finally, Fernández Marugán concluded that Armengol made an "undue restriction" of the parents' right to free choice of language in Spanish. The mediator warned Armengol in August 2018 that he could not thus limit the free choice of language, a right recognized in the Language Normalization Law of 1986 and endorsed by several Supreme Court rulings.
The Can Raspalls center in Ibiza kept the subjects in Catalan, the mother changed her children from school and the Ministry continues to encourage linguistic immersion in Catalan.
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