300 Balearic schools in check for denying Spanish: either they give a subject in Spanish or they will respond to the courts

• The Balearic Islands defy the Ombudsman and impose Catalan in the classrooms

• Spanish disappears from Infant and Primary education in the Balearic Islands

• They force schools to publish the subjects they teach in Spanish

They got the linguistic projects of the educational centers of the Balearic Islands.

They investigated in which language the students of each school studied.

Later they

.

They took the complaint to the Ombudsman, the Department of Education and the High Inspection.

battling against the imposition of Catalan in Balearic public education,

.

"If we receive a negative response or silence, we will go to court," he advances.

This association of teachers, which defends the school as a place of learning and not as a means of instrumentalization, has put the Government of the socialist Francina Armengol in check and

to comply with the law and den at least 25% of hours in Spanish.

Backed by the Balearic Civil Society

, both associations have addressed requests for modification of their language projects, warning that they

.

They claim the presence of Spanish as the vehicular language

of instruction in at least 25% of the teaching hours in all educational stages, and recall that

(in addition to the subject of Spanish Language and Literature).

"It is

and that we have to be ordinary citizens like us who, with sentences and recourse to justice, have to defend our rights", laments

, who recalls that the language projects of the centers must be compatible with the law and jurisprudence,

.

In his latest report, Francisco Fernández Marugán stated emphatically that language projects must consider Spanish as a vehicular language in a

and that the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court has established this proportion in

and in at least one core subject, apart from Spanish.

The president of PLIS, Josep Ignasi Aguiló, recalls that

, which are the documents where it is detailed in which language each subject is given.

Until now

.

Although the law requires them to post them on the website, many did not include them or referred to broken links or outdated information.

Without Spanish in 93%

According to the PLIS study,

;

and in 80% of primary school students, it is reduced to the subject of Spanish Language, exactly the same as the foreign language.

PLIS began a

in 2019

so that parents had access to these documents and today it has only achieved 65%.

Faced with the silence of Minister Martí March,

, handed them over, analyzed them and concluded that almost 90% of the analyzed schools practice immersion illegally.

PLIS

and the latter is still awaiting a reply from the Balearic Ministry of Education, for which he has made an urgent request.

Meanwhile, the

, dependent on the Ministry of Isabel Celáa,

or, at least, that 25% of the classes be in this language.

"The current regulations do not indicate that the minimum proportion of Spanish in linguistic projects [...] should be 25%", denied Isabel García Sureda, director of the High Inspection of the Balearic Islands, to the PLIS claim,

Now PLIS requests that all these linguistic projects be modified.

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