A teacher from Claret school in Barcelona left after complaining about being harassed by a former student.

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this burgundy school Barcelona separated an ESO teacher after receiving a complaint from a student who claimed it hurt to touch During the academic year 2020-2021, according to sources consulted by El Periódico de Catalunya. about a teacher over sixty whose initials XM and taught these Technology topics. The center’s administration, after activating the existing protocols, forbade him to maintain or maintain any contact with the students of this school. harmonious religious school. The administration’s decision to return the holiday was communicated to the faculty, and families, in a statement this week coinciding with the start of the 2022-23 school year, learned that the teacher under investigation is no longer part of the convent.

In the statement sent to the families, the Bordeaux School management said: I learned the truth this summer. The former student left the center at the end of the 2020-21 school year after alleged harassment, but for the first time told what happened when she received psychological treatment last year, when she was already enrolled in another school. . His notice reached the Department of Education, which activated the child protection protocol and sent an inspector to Claret. Upon the notification of the official, the administration decided to dismiss the person and to convey the facts to the prosecutor’s office.

“Observed and Examined”

In the statements made to El Periódico de Catalunya, former students of the Claret school who have XM as technology teacher in ESO’s 1st and 2nd grades, she said they felt “observed and scrutinized” by her. “He always looked at our breasts. And more, if we were in suspenders. It was an uncomfortable situation,” says one of these young women, explaining that it was a topic of conversation between them.

She says that when they started high school, older students already warned them. “They told us ‘watch out for this guy,’ because he was looking inappropriately,” she adds.

A second young woman confirms this: “If we wore t-shirts with something written on them, she would always read and comment on sentences. She would look at our breasts more than our eyes while talking to us.” “He didn’t look at the face. He looked at our boobs or assadds another.

One of them adds that he has a bad relationship with her. “Because I went against it,” she recalls. “He said unwarranted things. The macho comments laughed at the girls, at their outfits or their demeanor. So I reproached him,” she says.

There were “not surprised” or “it’s time” statements other former students sent to this newspaper after learning of the school’s decision to remove XM.

There were “complaints”

In the statement sent to the families, it is asked to respect the presumption of innocence of the teacher under suspicion, but underlines the commitment to cooperate to shed light on what happened. If anyone knows about it, the school will remember it was there. email account to be able to communicate with him.

In 2019, three Claret workers were indicted by former students: a priest Francesc Figueres and a bead, both from the Claret school in Barcelona, ​​and a lay teacher from a school in Sallent (Bages), who was Claretian until 1992. The school acknowledges that XM “has already been warned by management after receiving complaints about attitudes that don’t fit the school’s educational style, but has not received any complaints indicating possible criminal activity.”

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