When the girl carries it hanging all a department

Finally, yesterday we were able to hear the explanations that the Minister of Education, Esther, Niubó, gave in Parliament about the PISA tests disaster. Her intervention is summarized in this headline:“The Government has not clarified the origin of the PISA tests error”. The minister admitted the error, assumed “its seriousness”, cleared the centers, therefore, accepted that the responsibility lay with the Department of Education, but four months later she still does not know whose it is. And, at most, she ventured a hypothesis: that since on the same dates there were other exams organized by the Department, perhaps the coincidence of days led to the error in the sample.Niubó: “This means that the same 51 educational centers that were PISA samples also had to apply, with very little time difference, two assessments subject to different frameworks, that of PISA and the end-of-stage tests for fourth year of ESO, which, as I said before, were census-based last year and all students took them. And this similarity of percentages, combined with the fact that they were the same centers, with a coinciding schedule, but with different frameworks applied almost at the same time, allows us to suggest that confusion could have been generated at the center about the criteria to be used, transferring to the PISA tests exemption criteria or non-participation practices specific to the Catalan end-of-stage tests. But, I insist, this is a hypothesis.”It is inadmissible that the Government still does not have the conclusions of a problem it was warned about in March. And in this regard, President Illa's comments, who is in Vietnam on an official trip these days, do not help at all. The president said yesterday: "It's not about blaming anyone." President, let's see, we are not playing cards, this is not about blame, but rather we are scrutinizing a serious error that, incidentally, greatly harms the narrative of a government that defined itself by its management (by good management, it is understood) in contrast to the "collision" pro-State independence governments, which were focused on conflict and not on what really matters to people. And when someone makes a serious mistake, it is necessary to identify who has slipped up, who has not done their job well. This talk of blame is a dialectical way out to give the appearance of seriousness to an internal review that is not being very serious because, as I said, four months have passed and all the minister can say is that she is still in the realm of hypotheses. Of course not all of the problems in education in Catalonia are in the department of education, but in view of its limited capacity to deal with them, it is clear that one of the problems in education in Catalonia is the department responsible for it, now and before. And I end up talking about Mallorca. Yesterday we denounced police violence against the protesters of “Less tourism and more life”. There is a painful contrast between civic concern, expressed peacefully, and the abuse of power with which it was met. And on this subject I want to reproduce a fragment of today's article by the Mallorcan Sebastià Alzamora, who says it with much more precise words, as befits someone who lives there:“Mallorcans, as a society, have a certain reputation for being apathetic and conformist. I won't say it's not a reputation that is deserved to some extent, but it has a more interesting flip side. This same society also forms a country of sensible and elegant people, with a deep allergy to bad manners, rudeness, exaggerated gestures, and violence in any form. For the citizens of this country called Mallorca, there are few things less interesting than losing one's temper and irony, becoming overbearing, solemn, or intransigent. And let's not even mention becoming aggressive: all of this, in Mallorca, is frankly frowned upon. If even reasonable proposals, expressed in a civic manner, are met with batons, in the end the government will have nothing left. Because as Alzamora says, “On Sunday, something institutional broke.”Good morning.