The proposal seeks to recognize the careers of two teachers who played a significant role in the municipality's educational history. The Councilor for Public Works, Albert Bonàs, explained that the construction of new residential buildings prompted the review of the Ramon Piró passage's name. The name change is not intended as exclusion but as a reordering of the old town's symbolic space to achieve a more balanced representation of women and men in the nomenclature.
The inclusion of the names Carme Cosialls and Montserrat Guinart in the nomenclature aims to preserve local historical memory and highlight the work of teachers who advocated for a dignified public school system. The councilor thanked the Department of Culture, the Cercle de Recerques i Estudis Mogoda (CREM), and especially Carme Cosialls' family, who were present at the council meeting.
Montserrat Guinart Capellades was a teacher committed to dignifying public education during a time of severe material shortages. In 1927, during Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, she publicly expressed her dismay that the council prioritized building a new slaughterhouse over the needs of public schools. Her words had a notable public impact, leading her to send a letter of apology to the council. Her intervention is part of a period of educational transformation that culminated in the construction of the new School Group in 1931.
Carme Cosialls Pérez, born in Huesca in 1909 and died in Santa Perpètua in 1996, studied teaching in Lleida, where she won an award for best student. She joined as a teacher in 1935 and was appointed director of the school in 1955. She advocated for public education and co-education, retiring in 1975 after nearly four decades dedicated to teaching. Former students remember her fondly for her teaching methods and her close relationship with children.
