Today it's about a real fact
about education in Catalonia.
It has always been complex and intertwined with other issues.
Never has any meeting
with the Department of Education
concluded with any agreement,
since they solely defend
the oralist position.
But a group of tireless fighting parents,
from the Josep Pla school,
from Tres Pins school,
and from Consell de Cent school,
disappointed by the few hours of interpretation
assigned to deaf students,
we request a new meeting.
To the students,
only ten hours were interpreted for them
out of the total of 28 or more instructional hours
given in secondary school,
which means that the students
are without an interpreter for many hours.
However, if more than one deaf person coincides,
together they can accumulate hours
and cover the interpretation schedule.
But if this situation does not occur,
deaf students
will have some classes or subjects
that will be interpreted
and they will follow the content,
while others won't.
And they will have to ask for help
from their classmates.
And for this reason,
we request a meeting with the Department to discuss it.
In the meeting, the Deputy Coseller was present,
the General Director,
and some other technical positions.
They listened to us,
we talked extensively,
and as a parent of deaf students,
I wanted to thank them
for the gesture of receiving us,
allowing us to express ourselves,
and for having listened to us.
As a token of my appreciation,
I brought them a gift:
The novel 'Red Bracelets'
from a TV show.
It seemed to me that the detail
had pleased them.
But then I told them
that before handing it over,
I needed to prepare the gift.
So, I tore out a few pages
from the book,
so that they could
easily establish an analogy
between the missing pages in the novel
and the hours that deaf students miss
in the classroom without interpretation.
Therefore, it was impossible
to cover all the content.
Just like it's not possible to read a book
from which some pages have been taken.
I wished them a good and enjoyable reading,
and silently they took it home.