Catalan.
The transfers of the PSOE to Catalanism in the new Balearic educational law
Three public schools in Mallorca will begin to teach this course the subject of
Islamic religion
among a total of 150 students whose families have requested it.
It will be taught
in Catalan by two specialized teachers
with the same qualifications as the Catholic religion teachers.
It is the first pilot test that the Balearic government that presides over the PSOE will launch to comply with the agreement it signed in 2019 with the Islamic Commission in the Islands.
It also defends that it is bound by state regulations to offer this content.
The subject will be optional.
The Government of
Francina Armengol
has chosen to implement this novelty three schools in the interior and the south of Mallorca, in areas with a high population of Maghreb origin but in small towns.
They will be
Lloseta, Ses Salines and Colonia de Sant Jordi.
According to government sources, these centers have been chosen because they are from regions where it is expected that there will be a notable demand for the subject but which are far from larger populations, in order to try to avoid a
draw effect
or a transfer of students.
According to the Ministry of Education, around
900 applications
have been received
but for the moment the teaching of this subject will be limited to 150 students.
The Minister of Education, the socialist
Martí March
, has defended the project, which already exists in other autonomous communities.
He has said that thus "the only thing" that is done is "to recognize rights".
"No religion is removed or goes against any belief, another debate will be that of the presence of religion in school, which will have to be addressed sooner or later," said the minister at a press conference.
Thus, he has insisted that the regional executive by virtue of the agreements with religious confessions and state regulations is obliged to offer the Islamic religion as an optional subject, although at the moment it is only in three centers.
March has expressed his wish that the arrival of the Islamic religion to three centers in Lloseta, Ses Salines and Colònia de Sant Jordi is not
"a reason for division in society and the educational community"
and has expressed his concern that from some sectors it is used to create an "unnecessary conflict situation".
"The educational centers are spaces where people of different religion, origin or political ideology coexist," he argued.
The Balearic Government (PSOE-Podemos-Més) already wanted to implement this subject at the beginning of this legislature, but its plans were postponed due to the restrictions derived from the pandemic, which have significantly affected the area of education.
CONFRONTING WITH THE CATHOLIC
There is the circumstance that the
Balearic
Government
maintains a
confrontation with the concerted school,
eminently Catholic, which has repeatedly accused the Executive of neglecting its demands and marginalizing it in the new Balearic educational law, pending at this time of parliamentary processing but already approved by the Autonomous Government Council.
In line with this, the PP of the Balearic Islands, the main party in the regional opposition, has demanded "maximum supervision and control" of the contents of the subject of Islamic religion in the schools of the Balearic Islands and has criticized the "incongruity of promoting the Islamic religion after maneuvering to get the Catholic religion out of the classroom. "
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