The students of the Elena García Armada Institute in Jerez de la Frontera have partially recovered normality this Friday with their return to classes a day after the stabbing that a minor carried out on several classmates and teachers at the educational center in the Cadiz city.
The students were summoned at 11:45 am and have been received by teachers, tutors and specialists in emotional care after the traumatic event. According to a circular from the center, the teaching staff has designed some activities advised by the Provincial Technical Team for Educational and Professional Guidance and the Specialized Educational Guidance Team.
Early on Thursday, when classes had just started at Elena García Armada, a 14-year-old student injured three teachers and two students. He briefly got up from his chair with the intention of attacking another student. It was then that the rest of his classmates and several teachers tried to reduce him, resulting in three teachers and two students being injured. As reported by local media, the minor could suffer from ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and be a victim of bullying. The police arrested him in the same center, while he was still carrying the two knives that he used to commit the attack.
In fact, classmates have described an episode of bullying that occurred just yesterday, Wednesday, when someone threw a bottle of water at the boy, something that could be the trigger for this violent attitude. According to the newspaper El Español, only one of the students was worried about the minor after this incident. According to his story, the aggressor had warned him not to go to class today.
This circumstance has caused a change in the schedule, since from 8:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. only the teachers have remained in the center, who have received guidelines for action with minors from specialists from the Department of Educational Development .
Alejandro Castilla, president of the Association of Parents of Students (Ampa) of the Elena García Armada Secondary Education Institute (IES) in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) has assured that they had no record of complaints of bullying of the 14-year-old student. years, and has acknowledged that “something has gone wrong” in this regard.
“What happened yesterday, no one expected, obviously. And there was no alert set to even warn us of something similar to what happened,” Castilla said in an interview on Canal Sur Radio.
The person in charge of Ampa has commented that he has learned in recent hours that “apparently” the minor was experiencing situations of harassment by some colleagues but that the association was not aware of this. “The parents have not detected any strange behavior that could have put them in a situation and put the institute on alert. The classmates have seen something and they have not reported it either, which would be another failure,” he explained. adding that all this “would be a concatenation of circumstances that could have led to all this.”
In his opinion they are “failing” when considering that there are action protocols and “those channels are not used to activate it.” “If it seems that one or the other was so clear, then obviously that failure is there and we will have to reflect to see how we improve this and how we improve communication in the event that it was what failed,” he stated. .
Given what happened this Thursday in this Jerez institute, Castilla has indicated that “the most sensible thing” is to “wait for it to be clarified exactly what the motivations were” of the alleged aggressor and see if they can “intervene” so that “nothing similar happens.” to this”.
Predictably, the alleged aggressor will be at the disposal of the juvenile prosecutor this Friday after having spent the night in the cells of the Jerez de la Frontera Police Station, where he has been since his arrest. The reasons for the attack are unknown, although the minor, due to his age, could already be charged with the crime of assault.
The only injured person who had to undergo surgery to treat an eyelid wound, the biology teacher, was discharged yesterday afternoon.
