• The Valencian PP questions l'Escola Canta as a case of "serious indoctrination in the classroom"

« The lyrics of some of the songs are inappropriate for a 9-year-old boy » of the educational project L'Escola Canta that in its edition of the 2019/2020 course will bring together more than 4,600 schoolchildren from 132 schools in 51 municipalities of the Valencian Community, says the father of a student of the Army of Castellón. All an appeal to the 'parental pin' now topical.

This father has not signed the authorization for his son to be one of the 1,800 children in the city who participate in this initiative of educational innovation that will have its great staging at the end of May. In that act, the choirs of each center, the Municipal Band and the theater group of the CEIP Lluis Revest will present the work.

This neighbor of the capital of La Plana has told EL MUNDO that " the initiative is good in the background, but I perceive indoctrination , populist and inappropriate lyrics for my son."

In his opinion, "you can not urge children so young not to take the car to boost the use of renewable energy, they do not know what that is. Nor can you model a non-schooled girl who goes through the world of activist such as Greta Thunbergh » in reference to the stanza« Do not fill out pollutant gases, reclaim com la Greta »( Let's not release so many polluting gases, let's claim as does Greta ).

«My son came home asking me who is that Greta, so if that is the reference in school ...», asks the father who also reproaches that «imperatively incited» in other letters «to shout fins to the victòria »( until victory ).

Nor does he say he agrees to talk about "reforesting in countries that my son does not know or where they are on the map" in direct allusion to the song 'Plant an arbre' with the lyrics of ' cal fer reforested Brazil, Congo i Malàsia, to Indonesia or Peru, and also on your own »( Reforestation is needed in Brazil, Congo and Malaysia, in Indonesia or in Peru and also near you ). Neither he shares the initiative, he warns, "nor the mother of the child of whom I am divorced and that she was the first to tell our son that he was not signing the authorization to go to this act because they are not letters for his age."

"The defense of the environment is a value"

Faced with the complaint, the Councilor for Education of Castellón, Francesc Mezquita (Compromís) has responded that "for us the defense of the environment is a value, not only unquestionable, but universal because the future of the younger generations depends on this work" . "In that sense, we reiterate our full defense to the contents of the cantata and extend the support to the work of education professionals" who have participated in this project.

In this course, L'Escola Canta tackles a cantata created for the occasion by the composer Pablo Anglés, with lyrics by Ximo Montañés. Titled El cor de la terra , it combines music, singing and dramatization and addresses the theme of the climatic emergency. Focused on "the values ​​of teamwork and the development of competences in multilingual matters", he seeks to "publicize the Valencian musical tradition", as Mezquita pointed out.

PARENTAL PIN

The 'parental pin' defended by Vox in schools refers to the freedom of parents to choose the ideological contents that their children receive , however, this Monday, at the board of spokesmen voted against the PP in an institutional statement in favor of educational freedom, for the plenary of this Thursday, January 31. On the criticism of l'Escola Canta, last year, the PP warned that some songs made "apology of feminism" and that "incited to rebel against family authority." Criticism of the 'popular' was refuted even by private and religious schools in the city.

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