The professors of Geography and History of 4º of ESO and those of History of 2º of Baccalaureate will have the duty to include in their thematic classes on Historical Memory the next course 2020-2021, according to a Law approved by PSOE and We can in a Plenary of the Regional Assembly in December of last year and which has entered into force in June of this year, and also includes in the general regulatory framework fines of up to 20,000 euros to municipalities that do not withdraw Franco symbols. The Law of Historical and Democratic Memory of the region also requires that the subject is present in Primary and Adult Education.

In educational matters, in its article 50, it is gathered that the Ministry of Education will review the texts of the publishers with the aim of "offering truthful, extensive and rigorous information on the events that occurred in Extremadura during the Civil War and Francoism" .

For the Board, according to the BOE text published in January of this year, the approval of these mandatory regulations in the centers occurs, among other reasons, due to the "treatment given by public institutions to the issue of people retaliated by political reasons, singularly to the problem of the mass graves, (which) was also not going to be modified in a significant way in the years of the political transition and the democratic period until the approval of the Law of Historical Memory ".

"Silence pact"

Thus, it is then ensured in the legal text that "Law 46/1977, of October 15, the so-called Amnesty Law declared extinguished all criminal responsibilities that could have been incurred for the vexations, detentions and murders carried out during the Franco regime, while making it impossible to open any legal procedure on any violation of human rights. "

Following this same thesis, the Board describes as "silent pact" the Transition agreements, "both the recovery of the memory and dignity of the reprisals and the location and exhumation of the mass graves" that were carried out "in all parties, during the eighties and nineties, only by relatives and close friends of the victims, with the support, on occasion, of political parties and left-wing unions. "

Therefore, as described in the law, the "need" arises to know in all its breadth "Historical Truth", the origins, nature and manifestations of the political, ideological, educational and cultural repression suffered by Extremadura during the War Civil and the Franco regime, "an objective whose fulfillment will require the location, emptying and offer to the public of all sources of historical information related to the violence of any political sign that devastated Extremadura".

In blocks 7 and 8 of secondary

In Secondary these contents are present in blocks 7 and 8, as published by El Periódico Extremadura . The 7 is entitled "The stabilization of Capitalism and the economic isolation of the Soviet Bloc". And among its sections, there is a chapter on Franco's dictatorship. The evaluation criterion is: "Explain the causes for a dictatorship to be established in Spain , after the Civil War, and how that dictatorship evolved from 1939 to 1975".

Block 8 focuses on The Recent World between the 20th and 21st centuries . Among the issues in which it is divided, it appears: "Oblivion and memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's repression. Democratic Memory in Extremadura." In this case, the evaluation criteria focus on "knowing the reality of the victims of repression and the actions related to the establishment of censuses and the location of missing persons". In learning, students should "know how to establish a reasoned map of the main places of Democratic Memory in Extremadura."

In the case of 2nd Baccalaureate, this knowledge is entitled Democratic normalization of Spain and integration in Europe (since 1975) , where there is a section dedicated to "Reparation and recognition. The victims of repression in the Civil War and the postwar period. The Democratic Memory in Extremadura ". The evaluation criteria established are those of "placing Extremadura victims of repression in the precise historical context of the war and post-war years." Students should learn how the process is to "trace individual life paths of missing persons, by consulting oral sources, written documentation and information available on the Internet."

The Historical Memory is part of the educational curriculum of Extremadura since 2016, when the contents had to adapt to national regulations. Trade union sources have indicated to this newspaper that this topic "is not new", and that for the moment for this course no new instructions have been received from the Ministry of Education to the subject that has already been taught on this subject for three years, although they will be "attentive to the changes for the next course".

PP criticisms

The president of the PP in Extremadura, José Antonio Monago, recalled that PP and PSOE reached in 2010 a Pact for Education that was "a source of pride" in the region, but has lamented that now the Socialists "the first thing they will do it is going to be breaking "this pact, since" Extremadura is going to be the only place where Historical Memory is studied ", an issue that has been labeled as" formation of the socialist spirit ".

"Nobody has dared to this in Spain," said Monago, who has warned that in Extremadura "children will not be taught Science or Mathematics , here they will study socialist spirit formation," because "they are not he wants children with a free and critical spirit, but he wants the indoctrination of children in schools. "

In this way, Monago has appealed to the rest of Spain to "lend a hand" and "know that the moderate Fernández Vara will teach Historical Memory through the training curriculum in Extremadura schools."

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