If you are coming to Sant Cugat with your children and are looking into private schools, keep in mind that unless you stick to a foreign-language school, most private schools are very bad at teaching Catalan or Spanish to non-speakers.
For that reason, if you don’t want to go an international school that matches your culture, public schools are a good choice. Sure, Catalan is pretty useless as a language, but at least they have specialized teachers and are dedicated to helping your kid learn how to speak the language. Once they know Catalan, Spanish/Italian/French isn’t too far off (we tell ourselves this to make us feel better).
Recently I heard of one case of a kid (who doesn’t speak a word of Spanish or Catalan) going to pretty good non-international private schools , arriving in class and being given a Catalan/English dictionary and being told to start at ‘A’.
The bottom line is that you should check to make sure that the school you are sending your not-yet-fluent victim kid has an actual program to teach Catalan and/or Spanish to non-speakers. Just letting your kid’s teacher wing it is most likely going to end in disaster.
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