The reactions to the beating that an eight-year-old girl received a little more than a week ago during school recess, at the hands of twelve of her classmates at the Anselm Turmeda de Palma public school, continue.
The girl's parents, legally supported and advised by the legal services of the PROU parent association and the No Vaig de Vaga platform, have initiated a signature collection campaign through the hazteoir.org platform, to request the resignation of the center management team.
It is a beating that perhaps could have been avoided if the school had acted otherwise. This leads us to ask, What is the responsibility of the school and teachers in cases of school violence?
No teacher watched the recess
We are talking about a beating that left the hospitalized girl with kidney detachment, rib cracks and bruises on her foot and elbow. A beating that nobody saw despite occurring at recess time, when by law there should be at least one teacher in the yard watching the children.
The parents of the attacked girl consider that there was "passivity of teachers" who were not watching the time of recess, one of the moments of greatest risk of aggressions in the school environment.
They consider that the management team of the center and the teachers, also have their share of responsibility in this aggression, so they ask the Balearic Department of Education that teachers should be relieved that they should be watching the playground during recess and were not doing so.
As recognized by the center, the teacher in charge of recess surveillance was absent when during that surveillance, a special needs student required his help. At that time it was as he referred to the media, when the girl's aggression took place by her 12 patio mates.
Prevent bullying situations at school
According to the family of the attacked girl, it is not a punctual aggression, but a case of bullying since it is not the first time that aggressions have occurred, so far verbal against the child, by some of these partners who They hit him.
Three days before this terrible aggression occurred, the girl's mother appeared in the direction of the center to complain about the insults and threats that her 8-year-old daughter and another of her 12-year-old daughters were studying in This same center.
The girls were insulted by calling them "fat" by some of these classmates who participated in the beating and shouting that "Girls are worthless and can't play football."
The investigation that is being carried out by the Department has not been made public, has not yet been completed and no political leader of the islands has indicated anything in this regard.
And now
On the one hand, the girl and her sisters do not want to return to the educational center for fear of reprisals, according to the family itself. The child had to be transferred last weekend back to the hospital because she had dizziness and malaise, she continues to recover both physically and psychically at home.
On the other hand, the minors who participated in the aggression, of which most of them are already identified by the authorities, are being investigated by the police and the Children's Prosecutor's Office. When the investigation is finished, the measures to be adopted will be estimated, taking into account their status as minors.
In the educational center they want to return to normal as soon as possible after having been overwhelmed by the media interest that has aroused this incident that has caused both media and National Police to meet in the vicinity of the center for different reasons.
No one detected that this girl was being harassed? When the mother made known what was happening, in view of the events it is clear that the school did nothing to prevent aggression.
An educational center cannot look the other way, its responsibility is also to prevent situations of bullying or prevent attacks from occurring if an alert has been raised.
