Letters to the Editor

The justice of privileges

I am deeply disappointed by the recent acquittal of footballer Dani Alves. The court's decision sends an alarming message about how gender-based violence is addressed in our judicial system. What happened seriously undermines public confidence in the impartiality of the judicial system. It is essential that judicial and institutional bodies guarantee the protection and rights of victims of gender-based violence.

Fiona Velardo Rubio

Gavà

Autism

April 2nd was International Autism Awareness Day, an important day for me because I have a daughter with this disorder.

Today we ran to catch the train. Someone gave us one of the reserved seats. No one was surprised. My daughter called out all the stations, and no one seemed to mind. She flapped her wings when she heard the chosen fragment of her favorite song, and no one in the entire car showed surprise, not even enough to play it back with their phone perpendicular to their ear. On the street, we ran a kilometer, shouting, laughing, and carrying each other, and it didn't matter at all to those we passed. She waited, jumping like the Maasai, for the traffic lights to turn green, without her stereotyping attracting the attention of those waiting with her. Today, many normal people didn't look at my daughter as abnormal, because they were able to integrate their normality into their own. With this, today many people who share the same known world with her, perhaps without knowing it, have managed to make her visible.

Pablo Feu Fontaiña

Sant Cugat

People's problems

The increase in weekly food prices, the exorbitant rents, the inability to buy decent housing, the increase in the prices of basic services (electricity, property taxes, etc.), the fact that young people can't consider having children because they won't be able to support them, the quality of education, the fact that qualified young people leave to work abroad, the lack of jobs with fair wages, the inability to speak your language anywhere, the waste of public money, the fact that tourists have all the privileges... When will we have honest, efficient leaders who truly care about the citizens and the country?

Roser Urgellès

Barcelona

Against concerted education, still

Sumar has filed a non-legislative motion in Congress to eliminate educational subsidies through the "voluntary and negotiated" integration of private-subsidized schools into a single public network. The explanatory statement points out that these schools "generalize the raising of entry barriers, especially through the mechanism of illegal fee charging (in addition to co-payments for activities or voluntary rates, the Catholic religion as an exclusionary ideology, and the same geographic zoning that has favored it). The topic is tiresome, to be honest. The situation it raises is like déjà vu, a type of paramnesia that returns again and again, as do the arguments that dismantle it, which must be emphasized even if they are obvious: what policymakers should do is not attack this type of education, but approve fair funding that guarantees the free provision of the real cost of school places; subsidized private schools are not a problem of the education system, but an important part of it; families have the right to freely choose the type of education they consider most appropriate for their children...

Jesus Domingo Martinez

Girona