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The family of Canet de Mar, who won 25% of schooling in Spanish for their son in the P5 class of the Turó del Drac school in the courts, has appealed to Justice to avoid discrimination and pointing out by others parents from the same center. In a letter addressed to the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), the same one that ordered that part of the classes be taught in Spanish, the family claims that the Department of Education of the Generalitat and the school management be obliged to "preserve the identity and the privacy "of the minor and his parents, as well as the safety of all of them.

"We consider it essential to reinforce these measures by the Department of Education and the center's own management and proceed to guarantee social peace in the educational community," says the letter, which this medium has had. Parents, represented by the Assembly for a Bilingual School in Catalonia, have seen how the pointing towards them has been constant. The letter indicates that they have been on target since last Thursday, when those responsible for the school explained to the rest of the parents of P5 that from this week there would be more than 6 teaching hours in Spanish to comply with the judicial decision.

The plaintiffs indicate that, "as a result of the meeting that the center's management held with the parents of the class in which" the minor is enrolled, a few hours later "a public WhatsApp group was created that uses the logo of the school center and whose purpose is to hinder the execution of the precautionary measures "ordered by the TSJC, such as teaching 25% of teaching hours in Spanish.

The plaintiffs denounce that "in this public group very serious threats are made towards" them and their son, "requesting that the center identify the family and the child, who is expressly asked to be expelled from the center or to be emptied in the class, in more extreme comments the knowledge of the family's address is demanded so that they can be stoned. " "There is no known, on the part of the educational center, a public statement condemning the comments and threats made against the family that has requested the application of measures that must be generalized throughout the Catalan educational system.The only thing that has been known is a press release announcing for December 9 a visit to the center of the Minister of Education with the management and representatives of the families of the Turó del Drac School ", remarks the letter

A few days ago, the mayor of Canet de Mar, Blanca Arbell (ERC) along with other members of the government team went to the center to give support to families before the decision of the TSJC that agreed that 25% of the teaching hours of a P5 class was in Spanish. In addition, next Friday independence groups have called a demonstration at the doors of the school to which representatives of the sovereignist political formations are expected to attend.

For this reason, the parents of the minor emphasize that, "given the seriousness of the events, it is considered pertinent to reiterate once again to the management of the educational center and the Department of Education that it must preserve the privacy and security of the family and the child (out of five years) in school ". Thus, in the letter they urge the TSJC to remind the school management that, if it does not guarantee compliance with the judicial decision, it may incur a crime of obstruction of justice, punishable by four years in prison, the same that those who commit any act in "retaliation" against those who have promoted an action before the courts.

In a resolution of November 11, the General Secretary of the Department of Education ordered the center to comply with the judicial decision by teaching six and a half hours a week in Spanish to the class group in which the student is enrolled, mostly in the afternoon . The administration emphasizes that subjects such as play corners, graphomotor skills, visual and plastic education and psychomotor skills should be given in Spanish. However, the minor's parents consider that "the precautionary measure is not being followed", since subjects of the "curricular activity" such as language or mathematics are not followed, according to the timetable provided by the center, which will be done in Catalan.

For the family, these subjects "constitute the nucleus of the learning process and all these activities will be done in Catalan following an immersion model for Spanish-speaking children, since it is in the period of first teaching", so Spanish is left to "rather playful" activities.

For this reason, the plaintiffs ask that "some hours of the area of ​​communication and language be taught in Spanish."

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