WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN 4

In the first paragraph he lets us see that he just broke up with his girlfriend and wherever he goes and whatever he watches, it all reminds of  her. Then he feels his absence and things are different without her.

[Chorus] In the second paragraph he regrets not having spent more time with her neither having paid her more attention nor having  been more thorough when he had the chance. Now it’s too late because she’s with another guy who values her and makes her happy.

Then he names the causes which caused the break up . These reasons are his own shortcomings and therefore he knows it’s his fault.

[Chorus]

Finally he apologizes to her admitting his mistakes and he tells her that he only wishes things would have been different when they were together and that he could have given her what she deserved. He still remembers what she likes and he asks her to do what she enjoys doing like dancing.


                                                                                                                               Laia and Patri 2C.

WHY DON'T YOU KISS HER? - JESSE MCCARTNEY 4

This story is about two close friends, a boy and a girl, who spend a lot of time together and know each other very well . But what the girl doesn’t know is that he is in love with her and thinks about her all the time. When he is alone he can just hear a voice saying that he should kiss her friend and tell her  about  all his feelings.

On the one hand he really wants to kiss her because this way they could be together and maybe he could become her boyfriend, but on the other hand he is afraid. He’s smitten with her and he wants to be always by her side.

He thinks about what she would say if he confessed  to the girl that he loves her. However, we don’t know if he finally kisses her or not.

Laura Torres i Ariadna Pons 2nd C

SOMEONE LIKE YOU 4

The song starts talking about a past relationship , who has married another woman and had children, and finally he has what he wanted in the past. But the singer can’t forget him, and she hopes that when he sees her face, he will realise that he's still in love. Also she says that he doesn’t need to be worried, because she will find someone else, someone like him. She wishes him the best, and pleads him not to forget her. He says that time flies and he remembers the past. She comments that she doesn't like him going away, and she will wait so that when he sees her face , he will remember that for him it isn't over. They say that now all that is left are memories.

Carlos Sintes & Jordi Cardona  2n bat D

WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN- BRUNO MARS 3

He explains that he's heartbroken because she isn't with him and everything reminds him of her. He feels down when he hears talking about her and everything is more sad without her. He regrets not having done what he should have done when he was with her and now he has lost the woman os his life. He knows that it's too late too regret this situation and he knows that she won't go back with him but he recognizes that he has done the wrong things and he knows that it's his fault. Now she is with another man and he wants her to be happy with her new couple wishing her that this man does everything he didn't do to her. In conclusion he explains all the pain he feels having lost her.

Maria Pereira - Elisa Alcaide 2batxC

The chorus is about a man who realizes what he has when he loses it. And he tells us it with different examples like: when it isn't illuminated is when he needs the illumination. Another example is that he has always got the sun and when the storm begins he realizes that sun is very important. He only values the happines when he feels sad, and he would like to be at home when he is spends a long time so far. Actually with these examples he means that you only know what you have when it is too late because you have already lost it. And this is what has happened to him with his girlfriend, when he loses her, he feels alone because he is still in love with her.

He also explains us that withs drams happens the same that with love: they come too slow and leave with speedy. And then the man explains us that he feels so sad because his love story was like a short dream where he loved her so much but he lost her very quick, and now he only has the old memories.

In conclusion this song is a little reflection about how people don’t value the things they have.
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Paula García and Sara Olives 2nd D

ALL TOO WELL 3

I walked through the door with you

The air was cold but something 'bout it felt like home somehow and I

Left my scarf there at your sister's house

And you still got it in your drawer even now

Taylor Swift explains some details and memories about her past relationship when she and her boyfriend still got on well.

Oh, your sweet disposition

And my wide-eyed gaze

We're singing in a car getting lost Upstates

The autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place

And I can picture it after all these days

And I know it's long gone, and that magic’s not here no more

And it might be okay, but I'm not fine at all

She keeps on remembering good moments and dates but then, she tells us that after some time they grew apart and, now, she is a little heartbroken because she hasn’t got over it yet.

Cause here we are again on that little town street

You almost ran the red cause you were looking over at me

Wind in my hair, I was there, I remember it all too well

They were so in love because she explains how her boyfriend ran the red of the traffic light because he was always staring at her.

Photo album on the counter

Your cheeks were turning red

You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed

And your mother's telling stories 'bout you on the t-ball team

You tell me about your past thinking your future was me

She continues having memories about their relationship. In these memories she reminds of/ remembers how she and his mother used to watch photos of her boyfriend's childhood.

And I know it's long gone, and there was nothing else I could do

And I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to

Taylor tells us that they couldn’t clear the air and they didn’t patch up their differences. As time passed she began to forget the love that she had felt for him. 

Cause here we are again in the middle of the night

We're dancing round the kitchen in the refrigerator light

Down the stairs, I was there, I remember it all too well

Yeah

In the chorus she talks  about very nice memories of them as a couple in which they were dancing together in the night.

And maybe we got lost in translation

Maybe I asked for too much

But maybe this thing was a masterpiece

´til you tore it all up

Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well

Hey you called me up again just to break me like a promise

So casually cruel in the name of being honest

I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here

Cause I remember it all all all too well

She doubts about the causes that made them break up, but then she explains that it was him who broke up with her and he was unkind when he pretended to be honest with her, so he broke her heart.

Time won't fly it's like I'm paralyzed by it

I´d like to be my old self again

But I'm still trying to find it

After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own

Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone

But you keep my old scarf from that very first week

Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me

You can't get rid of it, cause you remember it all too well 

Yeah

To her it's really hard to get over, but she is fighting to do it. Then the love is not gone at all because he hasn't sent to her her old scarf  her old scarf back to her.

Cause there we are again when I loved you so

Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known

It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well

She says that he had never known someone like her.

Wind in my hair, you were there, you remember it all

Down the stairs, you were there, you remember it all

It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well

The same as before.

Ismael Derhali and Alfonso Hernández

LET HER GO 4

 Hardly anybody appreciates  what they have until they have lost it. This is what happened to that heartbroken boy who explains that he has lost what he had, probably a girlfriend or a close friend.

We can suspect that he had fallen in love with a very special girl, but their relationship was stormy because they had a lot of arguments and he didn't pay attention to her. Then, the couple decided to grow apart. Some months later, he didn't try to make up their problems but instead of fighting for that love, he let her go. Now he knows that he hasn't got over yet and he regrets having left his soulmate.

He feels negative and alone and also he doesn’t realise what is happening in his life, but he hopes that what he dreams every day, can be true someday. He knows that he was smitten with her and he feels heartbroken, because love hurts.

Gemma Barca - Paula Polo 2nD.

WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN 4

In the first verse, the singer notices that there’s been an important change in his life, he realizes how much things have changed since his girlfriend and he broke up. He feels everything in a different way than before: the bed is bigger now (without her), when he listens to those songs, which they loved, his feelings aren’t the same anymore… In addition, each thing that reminds him of his recent relationship hurts him a lot; therefore, he can’t stand hearing how his friends talk about her, his old love. He is heartbroken.

Afterwards, the author explains that due to his young age he didn’t know how to behave with his girlfriend: he didn’t either surprise her with little gifts or hold her hand when he had the opportunity to do it. He neither took her to the parties that she wanted to go to. He regrets not having spent more time with her and not having done all those things, because if he had, she’d certainly not be dancing with another man now.

In the third verse, Bruno Mars admits that his selfish and egoistic manners made her a strong and confident woman who didn’t hesitate at all when it was time to leave him. When he thinks about what happened he gets depressed and upset. Nevertheless, he is conscious: it all was his fault, and, consequently, he isn’t able to forget anything.

In the fourth verse, the singer repeats what he’s said in the second one.

Eventually, he recognizes that it’s too late to apologize for every mistake he’s made. However, he finishes the song with a wish: the author wants her new boyfriend to do everything he hasn’t. This is his strongest desire because if he is able to accomplish this, he won’t suffer and harass himself as the singer, Mars, has.

Carlos Mir & Pau Pons (2n of bachillerato - C)

SOMEONE LIKE YOU- ADELE 4

The girl in the song goes to her ex-boyfriend house, but she hasn't been invited. She explains to him that she can't live without him because she still loves him , but he has already found a new girl , a girl who he loves and has married. He is happy with her his new life but the girl remembers how they used to be and thinks that if he sees her,  he will want her back. She is pleased to see her boyfriend so happy but she hasn't forgotten him. She explains she is very sad, but she knows that in the future she will find someone who she can love as much as she loved her ex.


Marta Catchot and Aitana Hontecillas - 2n Bat.D

LET HER GO 4

At first, the singer is heartbroken because he and his girlfiernd have grown apart. The man realizes that he misses a lot of things when he has lost them, so he misses her too, because he has fallen out of touch with her.

The boy thinks about the girl and he doesn't get over, but he hopes to see her again. He knows things are difficult to get but easy to lose. For this reason, now, he realizes that he should have taken better care of her.

He screwed it up and he feels so sad, because they split up very fast. They loved each other, but they have ruined everything.

Finally, now he knows that he won't have her again.


Paula Real and Andrea 2D

Classrooms stay empty as Balearics teachers strike enters second week

Thousands march against PP premier's new trilingual learning model
ANDREU MANRESA Palma de Mallorca 25 SEP 2013 - 13:47 CET
Protestors converge on the regional assembly in Palma de Mallorca on Tuesday. 

An unprecedented strike by teaching staff in the Balearic Islands has entered its second week, bringing the public education system to a virtual standstill at the start of the new school year. The sector has taken to the streets to protest against a trilingual learning model imposed by the Popular Party regional government of José Ramón Bauzá, which has demoted the vehicular language, Catalan, in classrooms in favor of English.

The scale of support for the strike is undeniable, with thousands marching in Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera. A social fund set up to offset the salary losses suffered by striking teachers has raised more than 100,000 euros and renowned Mallorcan artist Miquel Barceló has donated an etching to be auctioned for the cause.

In Ibiza and Formentera the authorities admit a 27-percent following, which labor unions place at 90. In Mallorca, the government claims a 9.5-percent turnout and the strikers 55 percent. In Menorca, the intensity of the strike has lessened. There appears to be no immediate solution on the horizon with both parties holding firm. The government has called the unions to the negotiating table but there is no concrete dialogue aimed at bringing the strike to an end.

A fund set up for lost earnings has raised more than 100,000 euros
Last Friday parents kept their children home and demonstrations were organized Sunday in Palma, Mahón, Ibiza and Formentera. On Tuesday, a large crowd descended on the regional assembly to reiterate its rejection of the new education model, which the regional PP pushed through just before the school year began to avoid a legal wrangle. The Balearics Supreme Court had temporarily suspended the implementation of the decree pending further study.

"It is a serious situation that we have gone a week without classes but the government takes two to three weeks to assign a substitute for an absent teacher," said a spokesman for the strikers. There are 164,000 schoolchildren in the Balearics of whom 54,000 attend private schools, where the strike is not an issue. Around half of the 10,500 teachers in public centers remain on strike.

In every center there is a nucleus of unions and associations that reject the trilingual model, including conservative groups. "We have ended with the imposition of immersion classes and moved toward freedom," said Bauzá, who blames the high drop-out rate (39 percent) on the model, though without statistical support.

The trilingual system is being rolled out in phases, with full implementation envisaged across all age groups within five years.

On Monday, in Porto Cristo, Manacor, just one child turned up for class. In Son Gotleu, Palma, 60 of the usual 300 students answered the roll call. "We are prepared to go on this week and the next," said a teacher Monday. "There is no talk of backtracking; we will continue." While many families support the strike, the PP says there is great social pressure to keep children home and has threatened sanctions for those who do so.

"Some teachers are trying to persuade parents not to bring their children to school," said PP deputy Magda Prohens. "They have an obligation; they are paid a public salary to give classes."

Spain: Indefinite teachers’ strike provoked by language rights' attack

Monday, September 23, 2013 By Dick Nichols, Barcelona

Thousands of university lecturers protest in front of the rectory of the University of the Balearic Islands in support of striking teachers.

The school year should have already begun on the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula), but it hasn’t. Since September 16, high school and primary teachers have been on an indefinite strike.

In Palma, capital of Mallorca, up to 6000 teachers have been demonstrating daily outside the main government building. When the ceremony marking the start of the Balearic Islands’ university term was held, a swathe of lecturers walked out to express their solidarity with the thousands of teachers protesting outside.

What has it taken to drive the teachers to such an extreme ― with no wages and dependent on voluntary contributions to their strike fund?

Why do all public sector teachers’ unions support the strike, both the “non-political” professional associations and the “political” unions associated with the major parties ― including the Balearic Island branch of the tame-cat National Association of Teachers of Education (ANPE), viewed as closest to the right-wing People’s Party (PP) that runs the islands’ regional government?

Two assaults on education and culture by regional and national PP administration have combined to drive the teachers to such high-stakes action.

Cuts and cultural attacks

There are the vandalising cuts to education funding, wages and working conditions, accompanied by the “reform” of the national syllabus by national education minister Jose Ignacio Wert.

These assaults have already produced huge stoppages and protests elsewhere in the Spanish state (especially in Madrid, where teacher’s resistance took the form of a “green tide” of protesters wearing the movement’s emblematic green T-shirt).

The Balearic Islands, under the PP government of premier Jose Ramon Bauza and education minister Joana Maria Camps, is where the PP axe has cut deepest. Since May 2010, the teachers’ working week has risen from 35 hours to 37.5 hours and their wages have fallen on average by 25%.

The 2013-2014 school year is set to start 1000 teachers short (8.3% of the teaching body) for the same enrolment of students.

The second factor is the Balearic Islands’ government’s new Integrated Language Procedure (TIL). This downgrades the Balearic variant of Catalan, the language of the islands for 800 years and of its school instruction up until now, into one of three languages to be taught in the education system, along with Castilian (Spanish) and English.

This has turned teacher anger into extreme outrage.

Bauza’s pretext for the move on Catalan’s status as the main language of instruction is the need to make more syllabus time available for teaching in English, portrayed as the passport to “a decent future for our kids”.

Further fuelling the fire of teacher fury has been the despotic response of the Bauza government to any opposition. In July, when three high school headmasters on Menorca simply communicated to the education department the disagreement of their school councils with the proposal, they were suspended.

When the education department’s representative on Menorca then resigned in protest, he was replaced by a reliable-looking priest from the ultra-conservative Catholic grouping Opus Dei. However, the curate had to resign before even starting the job because the outrage from big sections of the local Catholic community was so great.

Only now has Bauza been able to find a stooge willing to take the job ― a PP local councillor innocent of any connection with education.

On September 5, the timetable for TIL implementation was provisionally suspended by the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands on appeal from one of the teaching unions. Bauza immediately repackaged the timetable as an emergency regulation to sideline the court.

As for the tone from the government benches, here is PP deputy Antoni Camps: “The positive side of this strike is that will know the name and surname of those who are concerned about the future of our children and those, on the other hand, who are playing with the students to achieve political goals.”

During the present strike high school students supporting the strike have been detained by police (with their number badges hidden) and had mobile phones confiscated. Staff and students have been threatened with suspension for wearing red-and-yellow bows at school to show support for Catalan and opposition to TIL.

However, none of this has intimidated the movement―in the schools the students are putting out YouTube videos expressing their hatred of TIL and their solidarity with the teachers, often in songs that cleverly parody recent Catalan hits.

Why TIL?

TIL has not come out of the blue―it is simply the latest attack of the Bauza government in its war to reverse the 30 years of gradual consensus-based normalisation of the role of the Catalan language in the Balearic Islands, a recovery after its effective outlawing from public life during the years of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975).

Since he won a majority at the June 2011 regional elections, Bauza ― who had been preselected within the PP by faking sympathy for its more “Mallorcan” wing ― has been dutifully carrying out a program of de-Catalanisation that was never even hinted at in his election campaign.

Bauza's actions include: eliminating knowledge of Catalan as a requirement of public service employment (described by the University of the Balearic Islands as condemning the language to “progressive eradication” and opposed by all public sector unions); reducing the use of Catalan by the public broadcaster; and closing or defunding a range of cultural institutions.

Particularly important was the 2011 upgrading of Castilian as a language of instruction alongside Catalan, and segregating students according to their choice (against all pedagogical advice, including that of the Schools Council of the Balearic Islands).

Such moves were enough to enrage tens of thousands, including many PP voters, leading to a 50,000-strong “Yes to Our Language” demonstration in Palma on March 25 last year. The PP-backed counter-demonstration attracted 34.

Yet in June this year, Bauza’s main plan ― to show that, once parents had the choice of having their children schooled in Castilian, enrolment in Catalan education would drop sharply ― flopped miserably.

The education ministry claimed that about 70% of parents enrolled their children for Catalan schooling, and 30% for Castilian schooling.

However, a thorough survey of primary school enrolment by the main teachers’ union, the Interunion Syndicate of Workers (STEI-i), revealed that the ministry had been lying: enrolments for three-six year-olds revealed an 86% to 90.5% preference for schooling in Catalan. Only in a few Catholic schools did the breakdown approach the ministry’s figures, by 71% to 29%.

The reaction of the government to that defeat was to press ahead stubbornly with the TIL, avoiding any real consultation with the education community.

Crash through?

To introduce a “trilingual” syllabus TIL will reduce the obligatory minimum hours of teaching in Catalan from 50% to 30% or less. Teachers with only basic English will now have to teach subjects like mathematics and ecology in that tongue, “helped” by the most rudimentary of textbooks.

What explains this anti-educational madness, which has even led to the resignation of PP office-holders? It’s not due to the Balearic Islands’ students’ low level of Castilian ― that’s already better than that of students in several mainland Castilian-only regions.

At its heart lies the conservative, neo-Francoist, obsession that Spain, “one and indivisible”, is under threat from the Catalan, Basque and Galician minorities. In particular, every advance for the Catalan identity ― borne along by the burgeoning Catalan independence movement and the spread of Catalan language and culture ― just has to be stopped.

Bauza’s war is thus part of the endless PP-driven moves to force the Catalan government to introduce Castilian as a language of instruction. It is part of the same offensive as grotesque operations like the Aragonese PP government’s decision to redefine the Catalan spoken along the border with Catalonia as the “Aragonese Language Specific to the Eastern Region”.

At the time of writing, the strike, which began with 90% participation, is holding up, although participation had fallen to 55% by day five. Yet the daily protests show no sign of waning and the members of the Balearic Islands government simply cannot appear in public.

A strong point of the strike is the role of the cross-union teachers’ assembly, with group in every school and a website also keeping teachers and the public informed and inoculated against Bauza’s black propaganda.

All the signs are of a vicious drawn-out fight. The Bauza government has decided that it must win the confrontation, rejecting all offers of mediation, including by the chancellor of the University of the Balearic Islands.

If the teaches are to win, they will need every bit of support they can get.

TEACHERS' STRIKE - Balearic style 17 / 9 / 13

The education system in the Balearic islands has been thrown into total chaos due to what is claimed to be an illegal implementation of a totally crazy, bizarre, stupendous new law. Read a summary of the situation on The Ibiza Sun:

Difficult Situation

Headlines were dominated this week by the new law concerning the integration of languages which will see children being taught in Castillian Spanish, Catalan and English at all levels, which some education experts insist is just not viable at the present time. They claim it would mean that certain subjects would have to be taught in a language that the pupils are not used to; for example, to learn mathematics in English when the teacher’s command of that language is sketchy would be very difficult. The prime mover of this new legislation is Joana María Camps, the Balearic Education Councillor, and all eleven headmasters of the secondary schools in Ibiza and Formentera have demanded that she resigns over her handling of the new system. By the time this edition of the Ibiza Sun hits the streets, it is highly likely that teachers at these schools will have gone on strike, action which had been threatened since well before the beginning of the new school year, and has no timescale, although with teachers not being paid whilst on strike, it is unlikely to last too long.

The head teachers of the secondary schools in Ibiza and the one in Formentera have not rejected the idea of presenting their resignations en masse, but are waiting to see the reactions of their counterparts, both in Mallorca and Menorca. In the latter Island, disciplinary action has already been taken out on three schools there due to their refusal to implement the new law.

The Parents Associations of the various education centres are understandably concerned about the situation, and the President of the Association which governs Ibiza and Formentera, Conchi Romero, said that they fully appreciate the position that the teachers find themselves in, adding that they have had to pay for the consequences of decisions which have been made in the public education system by the current head of the Govern, José Ramón Bauza and his team over the past two years, but that their main concern is for the people who will be most seriously disadvantaged by the strike - the children. Education has been one of the departments which has experienced the most cuts, with wages being slashed, jobs lost, class sizes increased and auxiliary teachers, who had been helping children with learning problems, dismissed.

It was initially hoped that a last minute meeting between the two sides would lead to an agreement, but it was reported that negotiations had broken down on Friday, resulting in the indefinite strike starting on Monday.

In a nutshell, the teachers are being forced to teach many subjects in English. Anyone who has had dealings with teachers at schools in Ibiza know that the vast majority of teachers cannot speak a jot of the language!

At a time when the schools have record numbers of pupils and less teachers, having taken pay cuts on the chin, this latest move is just plain crazy.

It is hard to envisage what the outcome will ultimately be, but this is one strike that is entirely reasonable.

http://forum.ibiza-spotlight.com/threads/teachers-strike-balearic-style.69647/

Teachers in the Balearic Islands in general strike for "inclusive, quality and Catalan language" education

Balearic Government cuts budget, seeks to introduce new system that substantially reduces position of Catalan • Unions, civil society associations and parties support the strike, ask Balearic Government to negotiate with teachers.

Teachers in the Balearic Islands' public schools have started today a general strike against recent education policies by the Balearic Government. Strikers consider  that the islands' executive (in the hands of Spanish nationalist Popular Party, PP) is acting against the public system of education. On the one hand, protesters say José Ramón Bauzá-led government is reducing the education budget more than other autonomous communities in Spain. On the other, they argue that the Balearic Government seeks to impose a new trilingual model (known as TIL ) that, according to strikers, will not help pupils to improve their skills in English but will negatively affect the position of Catalan in schools. Protesters vow to continue fighting  for an "inclusive, quality and Catalan language" education system in the Balearic Islands.
The strike is supported  by the main trade union among teachers (STEI), the two main Spain-wide unions (UGT and CCOO) and the Assembly of Teachers. It also has the support of several civil society associations in the Balearic Islands. All political parties in the Balearic Parliament (except for the PP) have asked Bauzá to start negotiations with the teachers in order to substantially change, or even to withdraw, the TIL and the budget cuts.
STEI has said  that 93% of teachers have endorsed the strike today.
Court says introduction of TIL should be suspended.
Two weeks ago, the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB, Catalan acronym) provisionally suspended  the introduction of the TIL into the education system. The Court argued that the TIL should not be implemented while the appeals against it had not been settled by the judiciary. The Court also said that the way the TIL was being introduced had not all legal guarantees.
But the Balearic Government decided, the day after the suspension, to force  the implementation of the TIL, despite the court's opinion. Bauzá's executive, in an extraordinary session, passed a new decree-law in which some articles of the original law were altered but that kept its basic provisions.

"Balance" between Catalan, Spanish and English
The Government argues that the TIL is only seeking to introduce a "balanced" use of Catalan, Spanish and English into the Balearic schools. This means that all three should be used as vehicular languages, and not only as a subject (as was English). Up till now, it was Catalan the main vehicular language. Thus, the new system is set to substantially reduce the position of Catalan, the own language of the Balearic Islands.
But Balearic teachers' associations argue that only a system where Catalan is the main language in school can really balance the social situation -where Catalan is a minorised language while Spanish is the hegemonic one, known by the entire population- and grant that all pupils have a good knowledge of both languages.

In relation to English, teachers say that the Balearic Government is trying to introduce it as a vehicular language without having the proper resources (human or economic ones) that ensure enough quality of teaching. The TIL "will increase school failure" because of this, they argue.

 http://www.nationalia.info/en/news/1555  16/09/2013

Educative strike in the Balearics paralyzes public education

Teachers strike but government stands firm  Majorca Daily Bulletin 17th September 2013 

Trade unions representing local teachers were claiming victory in their first day of industrial action yesterday alleging that 90 percent of all teachers joined the strike call. 

But the word from the local government was that just 22 percent of teachers had not gone to work  yesterday.

“A total of 4,500 teachers didn’t work yesterday out of 7,300 which are employed. If you take into account that 2,300 were covering the minimum services which had been demanded by the Balearic government, I think you can say that the strike has been a success,” said a union spokesperson yesterday.

The Balearic government dismissed the figures and said that support for the strike had been low.

Balearic President Jose Ramon Bauza said that he would not be backing down on plans to introduce a three tier learning system based around English, Catalan and Spanish. Teachers claimed that they do not have the necessary resources to introduce the system.

http://majorcadailybulletin.com/