The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed the lawsuit filed by families from the Turó del Drac school in Canet de Mar. The lawsuit opposed a previous ruling that obliged the center to provide an additional subject in Spanish, following a complaint from another family.
According to the court's reasoning, the school's long-standing practice of offering education exclusively in Catalan created a significant disadvantage for Spanish-speaking families residing in Catalonia. This situation, the ECHR stated, prevented their children from exercising their constitutional right and duty to learn Spanish.
The court's decision emphasizes that Spanish is an official language throughout Spain. Therefore, it considers that "prohibiting its use as a language of instruction would deprive citizens of their right to be educated in the national language".
