The alarming report presented yesterday by the Federation of Publishers' Guilds of Spain (FGEE) should make the educational community reflect on the need to reach as soon as possible a State Pact for Education that ends the nonsense that it means to have, de facto, 17 different educational systems, one for each community. It is not a question of calling into question the regional territorial decentralization formula established by our Constitution, but to admit that the transfer of competences in educational matters is jeopardizing the right of all citizens to receive a quality education that is not conditioned by the political pressures and ideological whims of the different education counselors.

Because it is not only about the overabundance of regional legislation , which reduces the coherence and homogeneity of the students' curricula, promoting inequality between them depending on where they study. The editors of educational books denounce that in the last three years the autonomous parliaments have produced 450 different normative texts , including laws, decrees, orders and resolutions in relation to curricular contents, which result in the preparation of 17 different versions of the same book to attend to territorial peculiarities - some of them idiomatic - and to include or eliminate entire chapters of the same subject.

It is also, and perhaps this is the most worrisome, verbal pressures - since they do not dare to put it in writing - and blackmail, to modify and manipulate educational content for absurd partisan reasons, such as eliminating in the books of the Valencian Community named Fernando Lázaro Carreter because he maintained that the Valencian was a dialect of Catalan, not speaking in the Catalan Catholic Monarchs or deleting the reference to the rivers in the Canary Islands, because they lack their islands. From the Ministry of Education, however, they wash their hands and disregard such violations of common sense and aberrant practices that imply contempt for Education and an unjustified increase in editorial costs that families generally assume.

Whatever the next composition of the Government, it is absolutely essential that, in agreement with the educational community and national parties, a consensus is reached to reconsider the current education system and sign a broad and lasting agreement that commits everyone with a quality education that guarantees, at the same time, a solvent education that is also an effective and competitive tool for workers.

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