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A teacher at a Malaga institute received a call yesterday from a mother asking if her son was already approved or had to continue doing the homework. It is the conclusion he drew after watching the television appearance of Isabel Celaá the day before, who promised that students will pass the course in a generalized way due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many of the teachers are "puzzled" by the message that the Minister of Education has transmitted . They say it "relaxes the students" and "implies that you can throw in the towel."

In the words of the Association of Autonomous Centers of Private Education (Acade) : "Approving students without having met the stated objectives and without having demonstrated it in the corresponding assessment tests will also be harmful in the medium and long term."

The CSIF and Anpe unions and the teachers' association PLIS Education, please also consider that what Celaá has proposed regarding promotion and qualification is against the current law, the Lomce, since it establishes that in ESO no You can pass a course with more than three students and in Baccalaureate with more than two (articles 28 and 36 ).

This norm also says that to be able to go to the final evaluation of the ESO, students must have a maximum of two failures (article 29 ) and that the graduate degree at this stage is obtained (article 31 ) with a minimum grade of one 5, for which the average of the ESO grades is counted in 70% and the final evaluation grade in 30% . Article 36 bis reminds that in order to take the final Baccalaureate assessment, you must have everything approved. Instead, what Celaá is proposing through a ministerial order is to pass the course "without taking into account limitations that affect the number of pending areas."

"There is no room for general approval"

"The form of promotion and qualification is regulated by organic law and the alarm decree does not modify this normative reality. The general approval is a formula that has no place in our legislation," warns Mario Gutiérrez , of CSIF, who recalls that, " in addition to the Lomce, the Constitution grants the State exclusive jurisdiction to regulate the conditions for obtaining academic degrees. "

"It is not acceptable to leave the ability of the Autonomous Communities to decide how it is titled, that is established in the Lomce, which is an organic law that is not repealed," says Nicolás Fernández Guisado , from Anpe. "What in no case can be exploited is a situation like the one we are experiencing, with all the harshness it is, to undermine the current legislation, the autonomy of the centers and the freedom of the professor's chair. Of course, you have to be flexible but also rigorous We can be flexible in the courses that are not term of educational level, because 4th of ESO, 2nd of Baccalaureate and the degrees of FP lead to a degree and that acquisition of title must be governed by the principles in force That cannot be ignored. "

«The agreement of the Sector Conference will have a tremendous effect on teachers, it will launch parents and students against teachers, who will face brutal pressure to go to the evaluation meetings with the approved students. The Government is transferring responsibility to teachers and schools for a very serious infraction of the law. An organic law cannot be corrected with the agreement of a Sectoral Conference l. Teachers should not do anything other than comply with the law, so they cannot approve the promotion and general qualification of students, "they point out in the Balearic teachers association PLIS Education, please.

Manuel Blanco Martín , director of the IES Son Cladera de Palma, and former delegate of the High Educational Inspection in the Balearic Islands with the Government of Mariano Rajoy (PP) relates: "In my institute we have several students with five or six students in the first year and in the second evaluation and the Government of the Balearic Islands has just given us instructions so that everyone has a positive grade. How do I tell my teachers to approve these students? What the minister proposes is illegal because the promotion and qualification criteria of The students are established in the basic regulations and Celaá would have to change the reference regulations, instead of leaving it to the autonomous communities ".

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