The number of Catalan schools and institutes that have decided not to schedule outings or school camps for the 2026/27 school year as a pressure measure to achieve educational improvements continues to increase. The platform that counts the centers that have joined the claim is about to reach 800: There are already 771, to be exact. All this continues to add uncertainty about what will happen with this activity in the next school year.
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The proposal to stop doing camps came from teachers in Maresme and Selva. In the text, promoted in February, the teachers express that they will stop carrying out school outings and/or camps until the Department of Education “implements real, structural, and effective improvements in the public education system.” They add that it is a “legitimate” pressure measure in the face of a reality “that has been dragging on for too many years and has become unsustainable.” In March, more than 400 centers decided to join the Manifest Aturem les sortides educatives, whose website details by towns which institutes are in favor of the measure. Barely a month and a half later, they have already doubled the number.
The standoff that Ustec, Secondary School Teachers CGT, and the Intersindical maintain with the Department of Education is generating support on one hand and much uncertainty on the other, without the Government seeming willing to intervene.
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The general director of the Pere Tarrés Foundation, Josep Oriol Pujol, described this Thursday the boycott of school camps proposed by the Catalan teachers’ unions as “very radical” and has expressed opposition due to the high educational value of these activities. “Education is everything: learning, skills, emotions, and socialization. School camps are a privileged moment for emotions and socialization. Losing them is losing an important part of children’s education,” he said. After pointing out that this tension has generated “unions with very radical positions” that “make very radical protest decisions,” he urged the Generalitat to understand that when something like this happens, it means “you have made a mistake at some point over the years.”
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