The previous director of the San Jaime de Majadahonda school "marked" certain students who he considered uncomfortable in order to subject them to constant pressure and get their parents to end up changing them to another school.
The person in charge of carrying out this alleged harassment was a Physics and Chemistry teacher who allegedly ridiculed the teenagers in front of their classmates, questioned their intelligence and imposed disproportionate punishments on them.
This is the dynamic reported by three families from the Madrid center, including that of a 14-year-old boy, who committed suicide last February. The young man jumped off a bridge, was hospitalized for 44 days and finally died.
At the school gates, some ESO students told EL MUNDO the ordeal they suffered due to the treatment given to them by the accused teacher: "She crushed us. "Everyone complained about her, but the school did nothing." The controversial teacher no longer works there, as does the previous director, who has retired.
These alleged episodes of harassment and humiliation that occurred during the last two academic years have ended up in court. Three families filed a complaint on October 20.
The accusation, brought by lawyers Ignacio Gordillo and María López, requests that the San Jaime S.L. school, the former director and the teacher be investigated for an alleged crime against moral integrity, punishable by sentences of between six months and two years in prison. It also asks to clarify if there is any relationship between the reported treatment and the adolescent's suicide.
Constant reprimands
According to sources familiar with the case, those affected would be students between 13 and 15 years old who, for different reasons, did not fit in at school. Their families maintain that the humiliations were not isolated events, but part of a strategy to force their departure.
The parents of the deceased minor claim that during the 2025/2026 academic year he suffered constant reprimands, public humiliation and expulsions from the classroom.
They also criticize that he was systematically blamed for incidents that occurred in class and that he was even accused of bullying younger classmates. However, according to the complaint, the tutor herself acknowledged that she did not consider that the boy had harassed other students.
Deep discomfort
The writing pays special attention to what happened on February 12, a day before the minor tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. According to his parents, several students threw a ball at him and, after the incident, he was reprimanded and forced to write a letter explaining what happened.
During the early morning he tried to take his own life and was hospitalized until his death, an event that shocked the students of San Jaime.
The family has provided a report from the psychologist who treated the teenager before these events. The document states that he had expressed deep discomfort related to the school, with a "very limiting effect on his psycho-emotional development."
Two other families who report similar situations have joined this complaint. One of them highlights that her son accumulated numerous disciplinary reports, expulsions and sanctions.
On April 1, 2025, the Educational Administration annulled one of its files due to irregularities in the processing, such as the violation of procedural guarantees.
The third family also points out derogatory comments and unjustified sanctions against their son. In this case, a disciplinary file was annulled due to the defenselessness caused to the student.
The parents also provide a psychiatric report that includes the adolescent's discomfort during his stay at school and improvement during weekends and vacations.
'It's a strict school'
After learning of these complaints, many parents closed ranks with the school yesterday. «I am happy. In 20 years there can always be a black sheep. If they don't like it, let them go somewhere else," declared a parent waiting for his son to leave.
"It's a strict school, I'm not going to deny that," said another mother. "The child who is crooked if they don't put a stick to straighten him, remains crooked," said a third.
However, the testimonies collected from ESO students leave no room for doubt. «That teacher called me a working-class dog and a beggar for wearing my shirt outside. He told me that I wasn't going to amount to anything. My parents went to talk to the principal, but he didn't do anything," says a student.
«It made my brother's life impossible. It was not something specific. He constantly humiliated and ridiculed certain students in public,” adds another.
