-Welcome to Segregators Anonymous! Juan, tell us your story. Strip your traumas on this hanger.
-Thank you very much. Hello, my name is Juan and I have studied in a school of differentiated education. I'm sorry.
We are seven siblings and we all inherited clothes and ate frozen pasties. Coca-Cola was the symbol of the holidays. Today's stale bread was tomorrow's breadcrumbs. And on our birthdays there were balloons, popcorn and chips. We were never happy meal people.
Three sisters. Three brothers. Orders. Dishwashers. Brooms. Imagination. A modest house, but very much a house. Sweated with the illusion of two fronts.
Seven public schools would have loosened the tie. But my parents decided to complicate their lives because they felt like it. I went to an all-boys school. All in uniform. With ties. My sisters went to an all-girls school. All in uniform. In plaid skirts. They went to the school next door, the one we winked at when we went cross-country.
No memory of that school is of a couch, of a pill, of group therapy. Really. I would say more, and you will forgive my boldness. I remember those great years very fondly. I did not feel that I was being turned into an undercover wife-beater, or a Martian, or a compulsive segregator, or an unresolved sexual tension, or a hammer of heretics, or a generator of phobias, or a provocation.
Never ever in my life, I promise by the regime, did I feel like a child trained to be antisocial, sexist, classist, radical Catholic, intolerant, rapist, blindly pepero, mental gumshoe... You are laughing your heads off. I understand that. But here, in confidence, without Rottenmeier ladies who watch over my single thought with webcam, I feel free... At school I learned things, and at home I learned them all. In both places I learned to respect people. It was in the environment.
My trauma, let's say, is more like a controlled anger. The Junta de Andalucía is determined to turn me into an alleged or future abuser of women, men, or vice versa. A danger. Guilty. And other Boards that are not from Andalusia, because it is a new policy to turn into social segregators those who believe that other educational models are better. And they pay them.
I'm offended by this iniquity. Because it is a design lie as big as the San Telmo Palace.
Bile segregators: you can stop pointing the laser pointer at me. Come on. Thank you.
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