Welcoming the results of the first campaign, developed last May, the Department of Innovation, Justice and Home Affairs of Government of the Balearic Islands has launched its second campaign to raise awareness for the use of security systems children in motor vehicles, through its Directorate General of Home Affairs and Public Safety Institute of the Balearic Islands. In addition to the lectures given in schools by police guardians, initiative is based on the distribution in schools in a booklet for parents of students. The main objective of the campaign, very commendable, is "to minimize risky behaviors in driving" is addressed "to parents and caregivers of children", among its purposes is to "sensitize responsible for children's use of approved security systems and thus avoid possible accidents, "and one of the reasons given for carrying it out is that" prevention of dangerous behavior is to start in the educational centers closer to children, such as family background and school. " So far, no objections in terms of objectives, recipients, purposes and motivations, but rather the opposite: praise for the initiative. If all this is as stated, however, we question automatically arises: why the campaign develops only in Catalan?
from official agencies have cornered the English language use so insistently that the question seems trivial, but it is not. As much as it is unfair that the language of instruction in schools is just one of the two officers, we know that it is the law. However, given the stated purpose of the campaign, what could not ask the multiconsejera Pilar Costa and the director general of the Interior, Sebastià Amengual, if you do not have to reach been more convenient to edit bilingual brochures? If parents monolingual brochure receptors do not understand its contents, would not breach the purpose of raising the "educational core nearest" which is the family? Just look at an example: some parents of Basque origin (or Murcia or Colombian) with children enrolled in the public schools, who work and pay taxes in the Balearics and all purposes are subject to the laws and regulations of the Balearic Islands, is not entitled to receive service Balearic authorities if their mother tongue, plus official and common to the whole nation is English? When a person alluded features receive the brochure for the said campaign, you need to make an extra effort to understand what it is advisable, if you can come to understand. Therefore, it is not serviced by the Administration on an equal footing with the Catalan-speaking city that itself is just happy his rights is therefore a second class citizen. If
campaign officials ignored this possibility, should resign for incompetence. If not ignored but considered that the main mission of the Balearic Islands authorities is to force the inhabitants to learn Catalan, and place this overall objective above that mark the common sense and own initiative awareness, should resign by sectarians. If the Minister and Director General Coast Amengual, in short, do not understand that languages \u200b\u200bare at the service of communication and without that sense have no other, that neither the Catalan or English can be above the training needs and security of citizens, and that is a very irresponsible to endanger a child because her parents just have not understood the information given in a language they know, with his official also, then, without any doubt, unworthy should resign. Nothing surprising since, as all the signage on our streets is monolingual, even in cases that do not understand instructions poses a risk to the user, or an avoidable penalty only have understood a text. But we can not overemphasize the absurdity of that in the XXI century inspire the actions of our rulers mythology Herderian lineage identity, the enemy of reason and efficiency, and elsewhere in Europe would be perfectly classified as extreme Right: examples abound. While there are second-class citizens in Spain, while English has whose right to security, or education, or work, or health, is considered less important or less protected than others by reason of the language they speak, whether it is, continue to denounce. Digital Journalist. Liberal Spain.
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