Christian lawyers sue a teacher for making 11-year-old children read a book by Santi Balmes

BarcelonaThe Christian Lawyers Foundation, representing parents, has filed a complaint with the Educational Inspection of the Community of Madrid against a Spanish language teacher at a school in Leganés for "forcing 11-year-old children to read a book with sexual content."

In the complaint, to which Europa Press has had access, the parents allege that, in class, the teacher "forced them to read the book aloud." I will come down from the Moon on a zip line, by Santi Balmes, the lead singer of the group Love of Lesbian. They claim that the book includes "content that talks about prostitution, orgies and drugs" and that "it even raises the possibility of having sex with a corpse." I will come down from the Moon on a zip line It is a young adult novel about David, a pre-adolescent with a peculiar view of the world who experiences the awakening of love and sexuality. The boy suffers from the separation of his parents and the silence of his older brother, who has stopped talking to him without telling him why. In parallel, he falls in love with a girl for the first time.

The events occurred in 2022, and the parents explain that they had not reported it before for "fear of reprisals." They ask for the teacher's disqualification because they consider that "she is not fit to decide on the content she teaches children in class." The president of Christian Lawyers, Poland Castellanos, asks the Madrid Education Department to "act and not be complicit in this violation of fundamental rights." "The department must be forceful and sanction the teacher. Readings like this violate the constitutional right of parents to decide on the education of their children," says Castellanos.