Education The 'Celaá Law', balm for the obstacles to Castilian in the educational system of the Valencian Community
Education: The three judicial blows to the Botànic for the imposition of the Valencian
The
Valencian
Ministry of Education
, led by the nationalist
Vicent Marzà
(
Compromís
), achieved unusual and unanimous applause from the opposition last year when it decided to postpone the implementation of the so-called
Multilingualism Law
in the institutes.
The new model, which was highly contested in the south of
Alicante
by increasing the Valencian hours in practice, is already applied in
Infant
and
Primary schools
, but it had to reach the last educational stages as of September 2020. Until it broke in the pandemic.
In April of last year, in full confinement, the Government assumed that it was impossible to strictly apply the calendar of the law.
School councils had to debate and approve new language projects in face-to-face meetings, which were, however, prohibited.
If the protests of a good part of the educational community of the most Castilian-speaking regions did not manage to bend Education in its commitment to the new model, the pandemic did.
The Valencian Government then postponed a course the application of a law that contemplates a minimum of
25%
of the teaching hours in both Spanish and Valencian (with a reserve of between
15%
and
25%
of the time for English).
The new date was the
2021/22 academic
year
, so the new deadline given to the centers to have their language projects approved and submitted to the Administration ended in February.
Protest in January 2020 against the law of the Valencian Government in Orihuela (Alicante).
The president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, talks with the 'minister' of Education, Vicent Marzà.EFE
EFE
The controversy is served.
First of all, because the
Valencian Confederation of Student Parents Associations (Covapa)
has written to the president of the Generalitat,
Ximo Puig,
to ask him to postpone the application again.
"At this time, we cannot hold face-to-face meetings to inform families and doing so electronically entails difficulties, as many of them do not have the necessary devices," writes the president of Covapa,
Sonia Terrero
in the letter
.
They recall that the norm itself establishes that the development of the linguistic project must obey a "participatory process" of the entire educational community, something that is hampered precisely by sanitary restrictions.
The moment to resume the debate is therefore considered "inopportune".
On the contrary, the educational Administration defends that the only thing that prevented the approval of the language plans in 2020 was the closure of the centers: "This circumstance does not exist now and the law has not ceased to be applied."
Despite the fact that the deadline for submitting projects ended on February 28, Education ensures that at the beginning of the month most institutes had their program decided and sent to the Department.
And what will simply be done from now on is "to continue with the accompaniment by the Administration with any doubts they may have."
The Covapa families, on the other hand, criticize that "the only possibilities of flexibility in the development of language projects have been verbally exposed in meetings by representatives of the Administration."
Flexibility is precisely the thesis put forward by Education before the centers most reluctant to the law due to the obligation to teach a non-linguistic subject in Valencian.
This argument does not convince the families and neither does the
PP
, which asks for a "postponement of the linguistic imposition."
For the
popular
spokesperson
for Education in the Valencian Community,
Beatriz Gascó
, the Government partners "skip the pandemic to impose projects" without guaranteeing "respect for the opinion of students and families."
The PP has questioned Puig's model from the beginning.
To the point that the first version was shipwrecked in the courts due to an appeal promoted by the
Alicante Provincial Council
.
So the language battle at school is far from buried.
The PP has already announced that it will repeal the law of the left as soon as it reaches the Generalitat.
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