Education confirms that two centers have formally requested to leave the plan to have a mosso at school

BarcelonaFirst confirmations from the Government regarding educational centers that have requested to withdraw from the pilot plan that contemplated sending a plainclothes Mossos d'Esquadra officer to the centers to improve coexistence. Sources from the Department of Education have confirmed that the ministry has received the formal request from two centers not to participate in the pilot project for school coexistence. They are a center in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat and another in Tàrrega. In parallel, however, the ministry has informed that the pilot plan will add a new center in Baix Llobregat that has asked the Government to join. Therefore, despite criticism of the measure and requests from some faculty meetings to abandon the plan, at this time the program will go from having 14 centers to having 13 participants.

This Wednesday afternoon it became known that the Margarida Xirgu institute in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat and the Vic La Plana, Jaume Callís, and Comtat d'Osona institutes had requested to withdraw from the pilot test and this Thursday doubts about participation in the plan have continued to grow among faculty meetings, despite Education only having received the formal request from two centers. As ARA has been able to learn, the majority of teachers at the Eugeni d'Ors institute in l'Hospitalet would also have signed the petition to hold an extraordinary faculty meeting to evaluate withdrawal from the plan.

Furthermore, according to Ustec —the majority union in the education sector—, there are still two more institutes where continuing to participate in the program is being called into question. As union sources explain at the Institut de Vic, the pilot test began this Monday, but it is expected that next week the faculty meeting will vote against it. Ustec also explains that a debate process has been opened to request that the plan promoted by Education and Interior does not start operating in one more institute.

"It discredits our role"

This Thursday, the assembly of workers at Margarida Xirgu has issued a strong statement against the pilot plan. The teachers at the L'Hospitalet institute have labeled the trial a "punitive, racist, and classist measure" and have assured that it "clashes head-on" with the values of the teaching profession" and discredits the role of workers in institutes. "We demand the immediate withdrawal of the pilot project from all centers and its non-implementation in the future," they have claimed in the statement. Furthermore, they have denounced that their center has suffered "stigmatization" as a consequence of the project and that it "has been the victim of fascist and far-right attacks that put the moral and physical integrity" of the students at risk. "We have been singled out as one of the most conflictive centers in Catalonia solely for having a high percentage of racialized students and those in situations of social exclusion. We are not a center where we have a singular problem of coexistence or conflict," they have claimed.