About thirty Primary schools in Terrassa and more than a thousand centers throughout Catalonia have joined the manifesto Let's stop outings and camps. For a dignified and quality public education, with which the teaching staff plans to suspend these activities starting from the 2026-2027 academic year.
The paradox that the initiative underlines is that teachers say they defend the pedagogical value of excursions and overnight stays, but at the same time they position them as a pressure measure to demand real improvements in public education. The suspension, therefore, is not presented as a rejection of school trips, but as a labor dispute transferred to a usual activity in the centers.
More than a thousand centers support a suspension starting from the 2026-2027 academic year
The manifesto has already gathered the adhesion of more than a thousand schools in Catalonia, including about thirty primary schools in Terrassa. The text sets the 2026-2027 school year as the horizon to stop doing school trips and camps while the Departament d'Educació does not implement the improvements that the teaching staff demand.
The teachers frame the proposal within the defense of a dignified and quality public education. The call is articulated around a strike of these activities outside the classroom, including overnight stays, as a formula of pressure on the educational administration.
Each cloister will decide whether to apply the strike of excursions and camps
The teaching staff promoting the manifesto specifies that the measure does not mean renouncing the educational value of outings or camps. Their approach is to use them as a tool of protest until effective changes occur in the conditions affecting public schools.
There will be no automatic application in all centers. The final decision on whether or not to suspend these activities will correspond to the faculty of each school, so that each center will be able to assess whether to join the strike when the 2026-2027 academic year arrives.
In Terrassa, the adhesion of about thirty centers places the municipality within a mobilization that exceeds a thousand schools in Catalonia. The manifesto links this pressure to a specific date, as the suspension is planned from the 2026-2027 academic year.