“Killing with a car is very cheap.” This is a phrase repeated by many relatives of traffic victims. Most fatal accidents, even if recklessness is proven, end with sentences of around 4 years in prison. Drivers are tried for crimes against road safety as no intentionality is perceived in deaths on the asphalt. But there are exceptions and sometimes justice “sees reason,” as relatives of those who have lost loved ones on the road would say, and a fatal traffic accident comes to be considered a homicide.

The PISA 2025 report has revealed a terrifyingly dystopian fact: young people cannot understand long texts due to their difficulty in maintaining attention. The diagnosis is so serious that, according to the educational experts consulted by this newspaper, only a social pact involving families and schools can reverse it. It was done with mobile phones, removing them from educational centers. Now – they point out – it must be done with reading. Enric Prats, professor of pedagogy at UB, and Jordi Collet, professor of Sociology of Education, propose prioritizing reading in school, which is the gateway to other knowledge. And to evaluate much more. The half hour of daily reading that was introduced by law two years ago in all Primary and Secondary classes, what results has it obtained? Do schools really do it?