The Generalitat consummates its disobedience: it denies 25% of Spanish to a family despite being obliged to comply with the sentence

• Catalonia The promoters of 25% of Spanish dismantle the Generalitat's strategy to shield immersion

• Education The Generalitat intends to avoid the sentence of 25% of Spanish with the endorsement of the teachers to a new linguistic decree

After the deadline for voluntarily applying the ruling on 25% of Spanish, not only is immersion still in force in all schools in Catalonia, but the Generalitat continues to deny education in Spanish to families who individually go to court to obtain that their children study in the common language.

"[The family] has no right to determine a percentage of the use of the Spanish language as a vehicular nor could any other public power do so other than the competent educational administration, which in Catalonia is the Generalitat," argue the Government's legal services Catalan in a letter sent to

(TSJC) to ask it to dismiss the claim of a family that requested 25% of Spanish for their son, who attends the

in Barcelona.

The Minister of Education of the Govern,

, dismissed the request of the parents on September 29, who challenged his decision before the High Court advised by the entity We speak Spanish.

And now the Generalitat is demanding that the High Court overturn this challenge, that is, that it endorse the Catalan Government's refusal to grant 25% of hours in Spanish to the plaintiffs' son.

The brief - to which

has had access - was sent by the Generalitat's lawyer to the TSJC on March 29, that is, one day after the deadline to apply the 25% sentence expired.

With which the Generalitat makes clear -black on white- its intention to continue imposing the monolingual immersion system.

Ignoring the sentence that dynamits the immersion, the lawyer of the Generalitat defends that "the appellant's claim to set the use of Spanish as a vehicular language at 25% is neither justified, nor is it covered by any legal norm, nor has it ever been recognized by any judicial resolution.

"Maintain differentiated treatment of Catalan"

And, next, he reviews as valid the arguments on which the linguistic regime imposed by the Generalitat for three decades has been based.

“In order to guarantee the legal requirement of full mastery of the two official languages, Catalan and Spanish, at the end of compulsory education, a differentiated treatment of Catalan must currently be maintained as a normally vehicular and learning language in the educational system,” the services allege. Legal decisions of the Generalitat to prove that it is not the Government's intention to introduce Spanish as a vehicular language in schools, despite the vague reference to the use of Spanish as a language of learning that is made in the proposal to reform the language policy law , designed by ERC, the PSC, the

and Junts, and sent by the Government to the TSJC as alleged proof that it is going to make the immersion more flexible to comply with the 25% sentence.

«With this show of prevaricating bad faith, the Generalitat will only be able to slightly delay the application of 25% in the group of the plaintiff family, but finally a direct order from the court will reach the directors and then they will have to comply.

On the other hand, this resolution will give more weight to the judicial actions undertaken by

and

because it reinforces the non-compliance with the sentence, ”says the president of Hablamos Español,

.

The Government demonstrates its intention to continue cornering Spanish in the school while waiting for the TSJC to approve its flight forward.

To try to prevent it, numerous requests for the forced execution of the 25% ruling have been submitted to the High Court so that immersion disappears from all schools in Catalonia.

The first was that of the association of civil guards

, which argued that the agents stationed in Catalonia could not send their children to school in Spanish as the Generalitat refused to comply with the court ruling.

Later they were followed by the claims of Hablamos Español or the AEB, which claimed their legitimacy to request that the sentence be applied as they are organizations that defend the presence of Spanish in the classrooms on behalf of many families.

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