The Department of Education plans to eliminate an I3 line at the Torres Jonama school for the 2026-2027 academic year, despite the center having received 25 applications for 17 places. The educational community interprets the cut as a loss of capacity in a school classified as highly complex.
Teachers and families argue that the decline in birth rates should be used to reduce class sizes and not to close groups. The suppression of the line would also mean losing 2.5 teaching positions at the center.
The school maintains 25 applications for 17 places and would lose 2.5 endowments
The Torres Jonama school thus faces a school year of tension between the planning of the Departament d'Educació and the demand registered in I3. The center has 17 places and has received 25 applications, a difference that the educational community uses to defend the continuity of the two lines.
If we had these students, two lines and the two and a half teachers that they will take away from us with the suppression of the line, we could offer much higher quality attention.
Pau Ubric, teacher and spokesperson for the center, links the line closure with 2.5 teaching staff in a school of maximum complexity.
The teachers insist that their objective is not to transfer the cut to another school, but to maintain the two lines in all public centers. Ubric remarks that this formula would allow for lower ratios throughout the system and not displace the problem from one school to another.
Families increased rejection at the municipal plenary after meeting with Inspection
Two weeks ago, family associations met with the Inspection and found a closed stance to rectify. In that meeting, the criterion applied was strictly numerical, as teachers and families later reported.
Teachers and families attended the municipal plenary to express bewilderment, disagreement, anger, and rejection of the decision. They also recalled the signing of the Charter of Educating Cities in 2004, the City's Educational Project, the adherence to the Education 360 Alliance, and the approval of the Diversity and Coexistence Plan on September 30, 2025.
The Diversity and Coexistence Plan was approved on September 30, 2025 and was mentioned in the plenary session along with other equity commitments.
"We are not fighting so that they eliminate our line and remove it from another school; what we want is for all schools to keep both lines because it is a good way to lower the ratios" - Pau Ubric, teacher and spokesperson for the center
The visible protests began on Friday morning in front of the center with the distribution of informational posters to families before entering. The educational community will maintain weekly actions until the joint concentration on Tuesday, May 26, with all public centers and families.
The joint meeting is called for Tuesday, May 26 with all public schools and families.
The measure will be applied at the Torres Jonama school, but the educational community warns that the Departament also intends to implement it on a rotating basis in other public schools in the municipality, where three of the four centers are of maximum complexity and one is of high complexity.