Homophobic attack on a teacher in Andratx: students create a fake Classroom with insults and sexual content

PalmThe faculty of IES Baltasar Porcel in Andratx has expressed its “strongest rejection” and “profound indignation” over a homophobic attack against a teacher at the school. As ARA Baleares has learned, the aggression consisted of the creation of a fake Google Classroom account by 4th year ESO students — with the collaboration of students from CC Ramon Llull — from which denigrating images and comments directed at the teacher were disseminated. Among the published content, there were sexually explicit photographs — such as images of genitals and sex toys — as well as insults and messages with direct references to the teacher's name that attacked his personal dignity.

The events became known on a Wednesday. That same afternoon, the school's principal filed a report with the Civil Guard. The following day, Thursday, an emergency faculty meeting was convened and the affected teacher also filed his own report upon arriving at the school. Currently, the school is conducting an investigation to clarify the identity of the alleged perpetrators, of whom there are already several suspects. According to school sources, while the faculty was being photographed to express support for the assaulted colleague, some of the suspected students were mocking the situation.

In a manifesto that has been accessed, the center's faculty denounces that this episode is not an isolated case, but rather part of a dynamic that repeats day after day, with disrespect and verbal aggression towards teachers. In this regard, they point out that they have long suffered insults, threats, and displays of contempt that have become a "too common" reality. This situation, they warn, evidences a "worrying" normalization of violence and disrespect within the educational environment.

Hate crimes on the rise

Likewise, they emphasize that the events not only affect the assaulted teacher, but also have a collective impact. “It is not just an individual attack,” they point out, but rather that discriminatory behaviors —such as homophobia, racism, or sexism— “directly harm people's dignity and erode the basic principles of coexistence”.

However, the teaching staff warns that this is a problem that goes beyond a single center and is reproduced in other educational and social spaces. Therefore, they consider that isolated condemnations are not enough and call for a “real and sustained social awareness”.

For all these reasons, the faculty has demanded a “clear, decisive, and effective” response from institutions to protect victims and act firmly against any discrimination, while also expressing their support and solidarity with the affected teacher. “What a colleague suffers can affect any of us or any student,” they warn, insisting that coexistence and respect must be inalienable pillars inside and outside the classroom.