On Tuesday, the Tarragona region saw protests from teachers who were not satisfied with the salary increase agreed upon by the CCOO and UGT unions with the government. The improvement included, among other things, an increase of around 3,000 euros per year. Not bad, but three unions (USTEC, Intersindical, and CGT) were not entirely convinced and organized a consultation.95% of voters rejected the agreement. It should be noted that 40,000 teachers participated, more than half of the total. The strikes that began this week and end on Friday with a demonstration in Barcelona therefore have very broad support among professionals.

We live in strange times: hatred has become a national pastime. It doesn't take much to ignite it: three headlines, two talk shows, and a couple of tweets, and suddenly half the country is judging the other half from the comfort of their sofas, with pre-packaged opinions. Curiously, in this race to point fingers, schools are always mentioned. As if the social fracture were the fault of a poorly corrected dictation or a badly presented media project.

Next year, the principals of public schools and institutes in Catalonia will be able to use an important tool more frequently to adapt their teaching staff to each school's educational project: conducting interviews to select some of the teachers on the staff. However, most positions will continue to be filled based on the order in which teachers appear on the waiting list.

"At our school, we draw on the possibilities that art offers us: music, visual expression, theater... We have such a wide range that we're endless, and at the same time, it's often the way our students communicate," explains Pilar Garcia, director of the Can Vila municipal special education school in Mollet del Vallès. The school, which is located between three and twenty years old, bases its educational project on art, and does so especially through theater. The students who join the Can Vila community have previously attended mainstream school and arrive here after experiencing situations of failure. "What we don't want is for this to happen again when they enter our school. Their autonomy, self-esteem, security, the ability to feel responsible, and the bond they establish with adults, among other things, are important to them, but for us, it's not a priority. Our priority is precisely to value and emphasize the things they must do to improve their quality of life and emotional well-being. Based on this, we will enhance all the abilities our students possess."

After the AAFAC, the federation that brings together all the associations of families of students from Catalan public schools, show his discontent with the approach of the 30 minutes dedicated to inclusive schools, the report's editors have defended their work. Carla Gracia and Albert Folk assure ARA that they do not question the inclusive school model at any time, but rather want to show the difficulties that exist in implementing it with all the guarantees. When ARA collected the complaints from the AFA of public schools, TV3 declined to comment on the controversy, so the point of view of the authors of the report 30 minutes It didn't appear in the article.

Last week, the Catalan government approved the third and final injection of public funds to bolster the Generalitat's coffers in the face of a budget shortage—€468 million, in addition to the €2,100 and €1,300 million already approved by Parliament. It did so on the same day as ERC announced the global agreement with Salvador Illa's administration. And the Commons explained that they were continuing to negotiate this third package. Well, on the eve of the Parliament's approval of this third credit supplement—it will do so in next week's plenary session—the Government and the Commons have reached an initial agreement: 22.7 million for inclusive schools next year, 6.9 million of which would be made effective this year. According to ARA, this translates into 352 educational support personnel (PAE) allocations to serve students with special educational needs.

"What do they want, for my son to live locked up at home?" This week the Health Department has informed Alba Jardiel, Aleix's mother, that next year he will not be allowed to continue attending his current school because they cannot guarantee his safety. Aleix has a minority disease that only affects around ten children in Spain, myotubular myopathy, which means he must live connected to a respirator, and causes generalized muscle weakness and motor stagnation. "On Tuesday I was summoned to a meeting with a Health Department representative, a doctor from Sant Joan de Déu hospital and a representative of the Barcelona Education consortium, and they told me that next year there will no longer be the two nurses that accompanied Aleix in the classroom and who took shifts to look after him when needed," she explains.