new education map set after votebetween Valencian and Spanish language base of learn Final data registration for units in both languages was completed this week. And the common point is … Active groups defending their respective co-official languages similarly complain of discrimination, but this seems contradictory and impossible.
both worldwide nationalist group Those related to independence movements such as the “Catalan NGO” (Plataforma per la Llengua), Escola Valenciana, or (with some nuances) trade unions such as STEPV, CCOO, UGT. defender of castilian (Hablamos Español, Escuela de Todos, Language Freedom or Teachers’ Platform for Language and Freedom) is dissatisfied with the application of what mothers and fathers have chosen.
Beyond subjective perception, it is clear that some students are not learning in their chosen language because they do not have enough classmates to form groups.
But apart from that few specific cases, in the remaining cases the request is satisfied a priori without knowing the definitive data.
On the one hand, the last hour of this type of battle for the Valencians or the Castilians to get more spots has been an experience. I was nervous of abolition of law The demands for freedom of education are included in the demands of the a priori teachers’ education strike for better pay.
And in the case of the Castilian Crusades, school for all ‘Serious’ condemned this week asymmetrical In the application of the Educational Freedom Act, exclusion of castilian It is used as the language of vehicles in many community centers in Valencia.
Everyone’s school “tolerant interpretation”
Although the Code clearly recognizes that students must receive most subjects in the base language of their family’s choice, without excluding the presence of other official languages, there is a lack of normative development; tolerant interpretation Due to Ministry of Education policy, Spanish is downgraded to secondary level in Valencian-based centers. Waste paper» they declared.
Meanwhile, in Spanish-based centers, Valencian is often taught in core subjects such as math and science, they said.
“The result is unequal teaching “This contradicts the spirit of this law and the motto it presents: ‘Two languages, one community,'” according to Escuela de Todos, which has already warned.imbalance”In a letter sent to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, it requested data on the temporal distribution of languages within the center through the transparency portal. “Despite the fact that language plans were pre-approved for each course, the authorities refused to provide the information, claiming lack of resources or unprocessed data,” they lamented.
“A biased reading of the law”
source of information Department They denied breaching regulations regarding minimum learning requirements for both languages. «Everyone’s school is biased reading of lawand he has already responded to the letter sent in this regard, in which it was said that as long as the education center complies with the proportions and mathematics and environmental knowledge are taught in the basic language, the center is within the law,” they pointed out.
Universities and research institutes are autonomy “It is necessary to establish how the remaining subjects will be distributed among the various vehicle languages,” they added, pointing out that “in the current education system there is no concept of core subjects to which they refer.”
As for you application of dataSpecifically, regarding the units per center for each basic language and which subjects are taught in each language, the department of Minister José Antonio Rovira assured that “Escuela de Todos has been informed that each center must record its content by November 14.” schedule common yearly». That is, the information was “in progress.” detail» Until this week, this new educational map will be drawn.
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