He has always lived in Catalonia, a community in which he was born, although, despite feeling Catalan, he has never wanted to give up using his mother tongue, Spanish, neither in his social environment nor in the exercise of his profession as a teacher. Fernando García He is convinced that this condition that he has defended for years has finally passed.
With a curriculum that accredits him with honors to exercise his specialty as a professor of Physics and Chemistry in Secondary – is a doctor in Chemistry for the University of Barcelona (UB) and member of different international associations, including the American Institution of Chemical Engineers of the United States. and the Institution of Chemical Engineers from the United Kingdom-, Fernando denounces in statements to ABC a “- harassment campaign “against his person by some members of the management team and several students of the Institute of Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona) in which he taught since 2015.
The teacher is convinced that the only reason behind the attacks on him is the fact that he teaches the classes in Spanish and has “A peculiar profile”. «I have limited myself to classes as I have always done and I have never assaulted any students. Sometimes they have asked me why I do not impart the classes in Catalan and why I do not accept that they call me Ferran. They do not accept teachers to uncheck the usual and bothers them that my classes are in Spanish, ”says Garcia in statements to this newspaper. Remember that none of the accusations that students have poured against him “have been formally denounced.”
According to the teacher, the harassment began to take shape at the end of 2019 when a group of students accused him “Of abuses and aggressions.” They never publicly specified what type of abuse or put the name and surname to the alleged aggressor; Nor such accusations have resulted in a criminal complaint or a formal complaint before the center of the center, as ABC has been able to verify.
«It came to me that they were accusing me of aggressor but these students just aimed that the author of the aggressions was a physics and chemistry teacher who arrived at the institute four years ago. It was the same as giving my name because I am the only one who meets those requirements but if they did not quote me, they thus avoided a demand for defamation, ”says the teacher. Assures that «just getting to the center I already perceived a different treatment. The director did not receive me as the rest «. “I tried an approach,” he continues – but there was no receptivity. ”
In 2017, according to their story, the friction began with certain teachers of the institute and the situation, according to the denounce, “it exploded in 2019 when I learned, although not by anyone from the center but because I ran through the halls that some students had accused of aggressor«. The young women allegedly affected, covered by the feminist assembly ‘Empowerment lilac’ (‘Purple empowerment’), composed of students from the institute, denounced the facts in the local media, following the tonic of pointing out without pointing the identity of the aggressor.
Following the complaints of this group, the SCHOOL COUNCIL Del Center decided on October 7, 2019 to send an explanatory letter to the families of the students allegedly attacked. I informed them about the denunciation of the assembly group. Concerned about what was happening and knowing the existence of the statement, Fernando García tried, he says, that the center made the accusations and also claimed to the direction of the Institute the statement sent to the families. He assures that he could not get it despite his repeated insistence.
The institute censures the painted against him
The case was also discussed in the plenary session Sant Just Desvern City Council of September 26, 2019. In 2020, the result of the discomfort created, appeared on the floor of the courtyard of the Institute a Pintada, signed by the Independence Youth Organization Arranlinked to the CUP, which prayed “an aggressor professor.” There were also complaints on social networks by some students in which he was pointed out and insulted.
The accusations, which never concretized, “further raised the relations” between the teacher and the center “, according to Garcia, and led him to ask for a work decline from August 2020 to the beginning of July 2021. He was diagnosed with him” a Agoraphobia with Ansiedad«, So they indicated treatment with antidepressants. »The patient has an attitude of avoidance of conflicting situations because they cause anxiety,” says the medical report consulted by ABC. »Both the director and the educational inspector use the argument of the alleged acts of harassment, which They have never happenedto create a context in which they prejudge me and thus I am separated from certain responsibilities, “says Garcia.
After his return to the institute, according to the teacher, “there were a certain normality«Until a new incident, this time with a student he was not tutor, put the focus on his person again. According to Garcia, he was watching a group of students and one of them, »who had already been pointed out as conflicting by other teachers« refused to remove the helmets as he asked him and wanted to leave the classroom. Garcia prevented him from closing him.
According to the teacher’s version, the student approached a few centimeters intimidating him with threat gestures so he looked away “gently after supporting him a few minutes.” The student, meanwhile, He denounced aggression And he assured that the professor pushed him violently against the wall. This is stated in the file consulted by this means. The center tried to meet with the teacher and he agreed but did not want the meeting to be held in the office – according to alleges, to avoid being intimidated – and refused to meet with the student’s family.
Following the incident, a sanctioning file which ended in an warning by the Department of Education for “breach of the duties and obligations of the official.” They accused him of “not facilitating a good school climate” and of not contributing to resolving the conflict by not wanting to maintain an encounter with the student’s parents. Fernando regrets the reasons why the file was opened “based on falsehoods that were then tested as such and in the same context of alleged guilt.”
Second painted in the patio
On November 25, 2024, when the teacher had already received the admonition, a new graffiti appeared on the floor of the patio, also signed by Arran; This time with his name. Fernando denounced the facts before the Mossos d’Esquadra. In response to the action, on December 3, 2024, the Institute sent a statement to the families of its students through the SCHOOL COUNCIL, rejecting the painted, but reaffirming its commitment to “zero tolerance” to any macho behavior.
In the text, consulted by ABC, the institute’s address ensures that it has not “received any formal complaint by testimonies or people directly affected on an incorrect behavior of any teacher of the center in the last five years.” The statement also underlines that the public function is governed by procedures that require direct testimonies to act and that «any Vandalic act produced towards the center and its publication on social networks is not a legitimate way of denouncing but harms the entire educational community «.
To facilitate the process, the management offered the students of the center the possibility of speaking with the teachers of the Department of Orientation of the Ministry, outside the institute, to channel your possible complaints. Until now you don’t know any. Consulted by this newspaper, the Department of Education, which directs Esther Niubórefer to the statement of the institute.
Fernando continues to teach and, as he says, remains medicated. He has never stopped feeling. His only objective is, as he confesses, “stop this.” If you don’t get it, you don’t rule out Encourage Legale actionss.
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