The TSJC gives the Government 15 days to apply the sentence of 25% Spanish in all schools


  • The court also requires the High Educational Inspection, dependent on the ministry, to verify compliance with the sentence

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has ordered the Department of Education to run in a maximum of 15 days the ruling that requires teaching at least 25% of teaching hours in Spanish in all educational centers in Catalonia.

The TSJC has explained this Monday that it has required the Minister of Education, Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, to “issue instructions and establish control guarantees” so that all students in the Catalan education system receive at least 25% of class hours in Spanish. The court has made this decision after the request made by the Assembly for a Bilingual School (AEB) to force the execution of the sentence which, given the interlocutory, recognizes the legitimacy. The court has not recognized the legitimacy of Vox and several deputies of the Parliament, who also required the forced execution.

Thus, in its resolution, the court orders Cambray “in a maximum of 15 days to issue instructions and establish control guarantees” so that “all students” are taught, “effectively and immediately”teaching through “the normal vehicular use of the two official languages in the percentages that are determined, which may not be less than 25% in either case.

core subject

The court notes that this order will include “at least the teaching of the same language and that of another subject or core subject matter or analogous”. This means that in addition to the Spanish language subject, schools must teach another subject in Spanish and this must be a core subject. In primary school, the core subjects, apart from languages, are Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics. In ESO they are Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and Geography and History, and he asks the Department of Education to inform the court when the measures are already being carried out and the degree of compliance with them.

In the interlocutory, the court specifies that the sentence “recognizes the freedom” of the Generalitat to “determine the means it deems appropriate to make effective the vehicular use of the official languages.” He warns that what matters is “the result” and that what is condemned is “inactivity in the dictation of instructions”. Thus, it concludes that “the choice of means to guarantee the result established in the judgment is the power of the Generalitat, but what is not within its freedom is not to act and allow a situation contrary to the constitutional mandate.”

The TSJC is not only directed to Education. Also to the High Educational Inspectionagency dependent on Ministry of Educationwhich is required to verify compliance with the sentence and inform the court.

“A New School”

From AEB they have received with “emotion” the decision of the court. The president of the entity, Ana Losada, has underlined that this requirement is “the end of a long road, of almost three decades of violation of linguistic rights” and has valued that now Catalonia will have “a new school”. “We are going to have a school for all Catalans, where the rights of all students are going to be respected, and they will be able to study in Catalan and Spanish. It is a very big change”, she pointed out.

Losada has expressed his satisfaction that the Catalan boys and girls are going to learn in a bilingual school. She has warned that the AEB will be on top of the schools applying the sentence.

You call to disobey

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Waiting for the positioning of the ‘minister’, who plans to appear at 5:00 p.m., the teachers’ union youtec, majority in the Catalan public school, has made a call not to abide by the sentence. His spokesperson, Iolanda Segura, has pointed out that “accepting the ruling is not an option”. “What the ‘conseller’ has to do is not comply. The only option is disobedience“.

“We cannot allow the courts to decide the linguistic policy of Catalonia and its schools,” warned Segura, who believes that if the sentence is applied “it will be the death of immersion and the vehicular nature of Catalan.”


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