Once again, in the Balearic Islands, the school in Catalan

According to data released by the Balearic Government, the support of the citizens of the Balearic Islands for public schooling in Catalan continues to be very widely in the majority. Overwhelming, if we prefer similar adjectives. In Mallorca, 81.85% have chosen to enroll their children in schools in Catalan. In Menorca, 89.7% of families have done so, and in Formentera, 82.45%. The exception to the general trend has been Ibiza, where only 53.28% of families have chosen Catalan, compared to 46.71% who have chosen Spanish.The total in the Balearic Islands as a whole has been 78.57% of favorable votes for Catalan, although this percentage does not represent reality accurately enough, because it is necessary to differentiate between the results from Eivissa and those from the rest of the islands. Naturally, results need to be improved everywhere: normality would be a percentage of 90% or higher in favor of Catalan on each of the islands. Even so, taking into account the demographic revolution that the Balearic Islands have experienced in the last 25 years (which requires careful study, not with prejudice or broad strokes) and the strong pressure against the use of Catalan exerted by Spanish nationalism, not only through politics but also through tourism as the sole dish of economic activity, certain media, and networks, these are reasonably good results. Not to contemplate them and congratulate ourselves, but to urgently get to work to reinforce the use of the native language of the Balearic Islands in their own territory. The case of Eivissa is the most difficult and, for that very reason, does not need defeatism or sterile apocalyptic messages (and almost always interested ones), but full support for the people of Eivissa who work in favor of Catalan in a more than meritorious way on a daily basis.For three years, this government, presided over by Marga Prohens, has given parents the "freedom" to choose the language of schooling for their children. This is what remains of a linguistic segregation plan that, at the insistence of Vox and with the approval of the PP, intended to separate students by language and thus create a social fracture with public schools as the scene of confrontation. A socially undesirable separation of students into "mallorquinites" (locals), "forasterets" (outsiders), and "immigrantets" (little immigrants), so as not to have to share classrooms with certain people (there are, it seems, those who propose this same thing for Catalonia). The plan in question was fully rejected by the educational community of the Balearic Islands, but the "freedom of choice" has remained and yields similar results each year. Some say that the PP is fine with it, because in this way it satisfies its Vox partners without everything translating into any notable change in practice. We must think that this is not the case, because if it were, we would be facing the most absurd and stupid educational policy imaginable, which would degrade public schools through gestures without content or meaning. And the rulers of the Balearic Islands would not engage in such a policy. We are sure of that.