Monday, 24 June 2019

Schoolgirl draws Spanish flag and teacher throws her out of the room – literally!




“The teacher came up behind her, lifted her up and threw her to the floor. She hurt her back as she fell. Then the teacher picked her up by the T-shirt and the scruff of the neck and threw her out of the room.”

The mother of a 10-year-old girl who was thrown out of a classroom by a Catalan nationalist teacher for drawing a Spanish flag and writing “¡Viva España!” on the cover of her end-of-year project. She was taken to A&E.



DIAGNOSIS
DORSOLUMBALGIA (DORSOLUMBAR PAIN)
Constants: Weight: 29.800 Kg. Temp. 36.7º. Pulse: 119 bpm. Sat. 97%
Reason for consultation: 10-year-old girl attending A&E accompanied by her parents because of aggression by the teacher, as they report. The girl reports that in class she has drawn some Spanish flags accompanied by the phrase “Viva España” in her end-of-year album. She reports that when the teacher [name redacted] of the “Font de l’Alba” school in Terrassa saw her she shouted, seized her by the T-shirt, and as she did so the girl fell to the floor hitting her back, and later she took her by the neck to take her out of the classroom. The girl reports moderate pain in the first finger of her right hand and moderate right inguinal [groin] pain where she has a hernia awaiting operation. No other symptoms.

Personal history: Vaccinations: Up to date. Known allergies to medicines: None.
Pathological history: None of interest.


The hospital failed to follow the legal protocol that required it to report an attack on a child by an adult to the police and the child-protection agency. The Catalan mafia elite protects its own. The parents themselves made a police report and are receiving support from the Catalan Resistance.

The case has of course come to the attention of the Catalan government, which has total control over education. It was dealt with by Jesús Viñas, an appointee of the ERC party in the Catalan education ministry, who classified the incident as minor misconduct (falta leve) and closed the case. The ministry office that handled the matter is this.

The yellow ribbon is the symbol of independence and support for the coup d’état against the Spanish state that was perpetrated by the Catalan government in September and October 2017.




There are credible reports that the teacher wore a yellow ribbon while teaching her classes. There are also reports that children were punished for speaking Spanish in the corridors and playground of the school. It goes without saying that Catalan is the only language allowed in the classroom. This is reminiscent of the infamous Welsh Not that was used until the mid 20th century to humiliate children in Welsh schools who were caught speaking their own language.








One result of this affair has been an outburst of pro-Spanish feeling in the school, with its gate and fence being covered with Spanish flags and anti-independence messages.


The nationalist control of education, with schools being a blatant tool of propaganda and indoctrination, is a terrible scandal in Catalonia. I intend to return to the subject.

Catalan TV3, which is funded directly out of taxation and is under the iron control of the government in a way that makes people as old as me feel positively nostalgic about the pluralism of Radio Moscow, gave this matter 30 seconds in its newscast. Only the government’s line was presented, that there was no physical mistreatment or ideological motivation. TV3 doesn’t do pluralism or balanced reporting.

To the best of my knowledge this has not been reported in any English-language news medium.


Sources (in Spanish)
Denuncian la agresión de una profesora a una niña en un colegio de Tarrasa por dibujar la bandera de España
(Teacher reported to police for attacking a girl in a school in Terrassa who drew a Spanish flag)

(Teacher reported to police for attacking a pupil who drew a Spanish flag)

(The secessionist who has closed the case of the attack on the girl in Terrassa)

(Why did the hospital in Terrassa not call the police when it treated the attacked girl?)

(TV3 allots half a minute to the attack on the girl in Terrassa and only offers the version of the Catalan government)


2 comments:

  1. @Maquegri it was in TV3 and as we know everything that is TV3 is true (or supporting the nazionalistic indoctrination guide of repression)

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