The school year has started off on the right foot. At least, with certain normality despite the persistence of covid. Nothing to do with the commotion and uncertainty of a year ago. The most important problem has occurred in vocational training (FP), where the demand has skyrocketed and has taken the ministry by surprise and where there is much room for improvement. This is one of the basic problems we are dragging along. But there are more, including school failure. The data made public by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are devastating for Spain, including Catalonia: in Spain as a whole, almost nine out of every 100 secondary school students stay down a year (8.7%). This is the highest rate of the thirty-five OECD countries, where the percentage of students who stay down a year stands at 1.9%. Therefore, in Spain it is four times as high. In baccalaureate a similar thing happens: Spain is also at the top of the ranking in students who stay down a year, with a rate of 7.9%, well above the average of the OECD countries (2.9%). The number of of Neets (people who are not in education, employment or training), after a few years in decline, has also grown again during the pandemic: they already represent 22% of youngsters (in 2019 they were 19.2%).