Silent demonstration against Miquel Roldán in Son Sardina

PalmThe families of the MA Salvá Primary School in Palma held a silent demonstration this Tuesday to demonstrate their opposition to Miquel Roldán teaching at their children's school. This is the fifth day of the strike by the parents, who want the Ministry of Education and the regional government to take immediate and precautionary measures to ensure that the school's teacher does not teach or have any contact with the children.

Before the demonstration, the affected parents, a total of 137 people, met and decided to continue their protest against sending their children to school.

This Wednesday, their lawyer, Carmen López, will meet with the legal services of the Ministry of Education to find a favorable solution.

That same morning, the school's teachers are summoned to the Occupational Risk Prevention Service.

For its part, the Education Department has decided to convene a new joint committee to determine whether Miquel Roldán should undergo a psychiatric evaluation. The body is made up of education unions and representatives of the administration, in a 50-50 ratio. For the decision on whether or not to be evaluated to be binding, an absolute majority of votes will be required. In the event of a tie, everything remains as is.

A committee was held in February, which decided that Roldán should not undergo a mandatory evaluation of his health status. The seven representatives of the Administration voted in favor, while the union delegates of STEI, UGT, ANPE, Alternativa, and USO abstained, and SIAU and UOB voted against. Now, Educació will reactivate the Roundtable to see if a new conclusion can be reached, at a time when the situation is tense, following the indefinite strike by families at the Maria Antònia Salvà Primary School, who are not sending their children to school because the teacher has taken a temporary position.

FAPA Support

This Tuesday, the Federation of Families of Mallorca (FAPA Mallorca) expressed its support for the educational community at the Maria Antònia Salvà Primary School in their fight to have Miquel Roldán, a teacher convicted of bullying minors, removed from teaching. "We reject the idea that a person convicted of bullying a former student, a minor, should continue teaching and having contact with students. Last year, the problem erupted at the Gabriel Janer Manila Primary School when this teacher applied for a place at the school, where he had initiated contact with the student he ultimately bullied, and for which he was convicted." FAPA Mallorca has already stated that this was not a problem at any specific school. Permanent solutions had to be found, or we would have the problem every year, as has been the case," the organization explains.

"Last year, we asked the Ministry of Education, through the state confederation of associations, CEAPA, to include as grounds for disqualification crimes such as harassment, gender violence, and hate crimes, which are incompatible with the protection of minors and the values that a person doing educational work should convey, in accordance with the conduct of that person's actions and knowledge of children and young people following their trial, so that they could investigate this pattern of repeated behavior," the Federation states.

FAPA also assures that this school year it will continue to call on all involved authorities to guarantee the protection of minors, "our sons and daughters." "Urgent precautionary measures are necessary while we address the regulatory loophole that allows people convicted of certain crimes to have contact with students. We demand that our children have a safe educational environment that generates trust and is free from any risk to their physical and emotional well-being," FAPA demands. "Dolls and children come first, always," it states.