The Supreme Court (TS) has knocked down the linguistic projects of two schools in Barcelona for not meeting a minimum of 25% Spanish in teachingafter rejecting the appeals of the Generalitat considering that they lack grounds.
According to the rulings, the first contentious-administrative section has dismissed the appeals filed against the decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) to impose 25% of Spanish in the Bogatell schools in the Catalan capital and Josefina Ibáñez de Abrera (Barcelona) because “It has not been sufficiently substantiated.”
The Generalitat assured that the decision of the TSJC could be “seriously harmful to general interests” and argued lack of legitimacy of the complainantssomething that the high court has rejected.
The Supreme Court has also reproached the Generalitat for affirming “that the resource is projected in a general way on the linguistic system, without any other limitation or nuance”, a circumstance thatand “does not appear duly filled out but by excessively generic and indeterminate references”.
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The president of the Assembly for a Bilingual School (AEB), Ana Losada, has assessed “these measures very positively because they show that regardless of whether we are blocked with 25% centers must program subjects in Spanish”.
“People have thought that 25% is not valid”Losada lamented, recalling that Spanish “is the vehicular language in the Catalan school” because it is established by law.
In the March 2021 rulings appealed by the Generalitat, families were recognized “a teaching that includes Spanish as the vehicular language, in a reasonable proportion” that “in the absence of its specification” must be set at a minimum of 25%.
The TSJC annulled last year the linguistic projects of both centers for not contemplating “the vehicular nature of Spanish as the official language, together with Catalan, and also annul any other linguistic project” in case it “incurs in the same defect”.
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