The public schools of Catalonia are like my bachelor’s penthouse: they lack air conditioning, a moral, metaphysical and technological vacuum that legitimizes me to advise them to do as I do. In other words, get annoyed.
Since when have children stopped doing something that interests them because it is hot or cold?
I do not advocate that the very rascals, storytellers and pampered be roasted a l’ast or have to be pickled, but I also do not look favorably on the fact that, when certain temperatures are reached, classes can be suspended to go to “a climate refuge”, I say than the patio, a favorable option to end up in an inflatable pool trying to drown fellow student VicentÃn or in a preseason game.
The reader will have already understood that my concept of education is unconstitutional, unsustainable and unsupportive and rests on the theory that the more salvageable adversities the respectable group of boys and girls face, the greater their chances of understanding life and not ending their days. waiting for happiness, the one promised to them by those who will no longer be there to tell them: and what did you expect?
Like every generation, I am convinced that the children of the 21st century, in the year 2023, are pampered and overprotected, which is why every day the name of a new trauma appears, that of some psychological risk or the possibility that the heat will fry their eyes. brains and have to change classes in May or June. And in summer? Will they then spend the day in air-conditioned places or quiet in the shade of a fig tree?
Nothing can make a child happier than an excuse not to do something they don’t feel like doing. Such that examining themselves and less in June, when they only think about the holidays, associated with the open air, where they will roast in the heat, like every son of a neighbor.
What do they install Carrier refrigeration in the classrooms? Great. That they have to settle for air currents? More was lost in Cuba. We just need to turn them prematurely into adults, all day anguished by the sky, the temperatures, the negative records and the mother Earth that gave birth to us.
