Madrid, Spain, Feb 13, 2009 / 21:23 pm
A mother from the Spanish city of Jaen has shared her experience of being pressured by the local public school to make her son take the controversial course Education for the Citizenry, despite her objections to the class.
“They told me I couldn’t do that. The pressured me to put him in the class and they suspended him,” Pilar Colomina told Professionals for Ethics.
She recalled that at the beginning, in 2007, when her son did not show up for the class, they called her “for forty five minutes straight to go pick him up. I always refused and I warned them that if anything happened to him during school hours they would be held responsible.”
Professionals for Ethics reported that once the authorities deemed it useless to pressure the mother, they began to undermine the child’s resistance.