The High Court of Catalonia (TSJC) has annulled some provisions of the Ministry of Education’s directive signed in July for the current academic year, which referred to a directive on language issues. In line with established doctrine, … Although the TSJC judges remember that Catalan can be the “base language” of Catalonia’s schooling system, This does not mean excluding Spanish as a vehicle language; It is a situation that exists in community classrooms, and it must be justified in any case.
The judgment was announced this Saturday by the Bilingual Schools Board (AEB), the group that brought the text of the appeal, with consultation from the ABC. “Documents regarding the organization and management of the center” And TSJC has invalidated some of its precepts. Some of these rescinded points refer to the controversial figure of the language coordinator, whose main job is to ensure that only Catalan is used. For AEB, “this judgment makes clear that the use of Catalan cannot be forced only within educational centres.”
For the group, the TSJC judge’s decision, partially upholding AEB’s claims and leveling the costs, “reinforces the language connectivity model and thwarts attempts to impose Catalan as the only working language and social cohesion in Catalan schools.” Because “the deleted parts aim to impose Catalan as the only language of social, cultural and community cohesion,” Build your own school model, “It violates fundamental rights and is alien to Catalonia’s true linguistic pluralism.”
Along these lines, the association applauds the TSJC for including a ruling that requires each school’s education center to explicitly include Spanish in its language projects, “which will force modifications to projects where Spanish has been relegated or obscured.” The decision It strengthens language balance in the classroom. “The fact that the basic language is Catalan or Arane is not an obstacle to the use of Spanish,” the AEB said in a statement, echoing the district court’s position.
Similarly, a “particularly relevant aspect” for the appellant group is the TSJC’s decision regarding the idea that Catalan is the only language of social cohesion. The judges said this claim “violates fundamental rights by imposing a uniform linguistic identity that is alien to Catalonia’s social reality.” There is no dispute that Spanish is part of our common cultural heritage and mechanisms for coexistence among citizens. They pointed out that the use of Spanish cannot be considered solely as “a mere academic obligation that does not contribute to the formation of a society that shares the same values.”
Throughout the judgment, TSJC recalled that: Since 1983 The Constitutional Court ruled that “the existence of different official languages imposes a regime of linguistic coordination in education and means that all official languages must be used regularly in education.” Even in the 2010 judgment on the Autonomy Law, the constitutional interpretation that the Constitutional Court only repeats again and again, despite the fact that the Autonomy Law has not been complied with since then.
According to the AEB report, companies ask: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology As a result of this Saturday’s ruling, the Directions will be immediately amended to comply with the law, which will “explicitly” prohibit the activities of language coordinators, which the law defines as “language commissioners,” and ensure that “no family, teacher or student will be pressured to use the official language” in classrooms or schools. “The exclusion of Spanish is unconstitutional and cannot be done as part of an educational project in public centers in Catalonia,” the association added.
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