• Politics The Government of Sánchez avoids urging the Generalitat to comply with 25% of Spanish in Catalan schools

  • Politics Casado claims to apply an educational 155 in Catalonia to enforce the Supreme Court ruling

  • Justice The Supreme Court consecrates 25% of classes in Spanish and the Generalitat refuses to comply

The refusal of the Generalitat of Catalonia to apply the ruling of the Supreme Court and guarantee knowledge of Spanish feeds the objective of EH Bildu and the

Basque

ikastolas

to make Spanish disappear from schools. The coalition

Abertzale

and schools

euskaldunes

pressure on the Department of Education to eliminate linguistic models currently in force and a "language immersion" complete that go beyond the imposition own classrooms.

"It is essential that the next laws that regulate the Basque educational systems establish that Basque is the vehicular language and the language of learning in our educational systems," claimed

Ikastolen Elkartea

, an association that brings together all the

ikastolas

of the Basque Country, of Navarra and from the south of France.

The Basque Parliament will address in 2022 the reform of the Education Law approved in the 1980s and all the previous political debate is focused on the time allocated to learning and using Basque by schoolchildren before, during and after their classes.

The nationalist parties and organizations in defense of the Basque language promote a so-called educational social pact in which the common denominator will be to increase the weight of Basque in the education of the 370,000 students who are distributed 50% between public schools and subsidized centers.

'Model D' and 'Model A'

The i

kastolas

have used the Supreme Court ruling on the obligation to also teach in Spanish in Catalonia and the Generalitat's refusal as an opportunity to insist on the end of the three linguistic models that, in theory, are offered in the Basque Country so that students parents can choose the vehicular language in which their children learn.

A theoretical offer because during the last 40 years the Basque Government has prevailed the so-called

D model

, with all subjects in Basque except Spanish, in which 68.8% of the students are enrolled, while in the

model A

(classes in Spanish with a Basque subject) are only 13% of the total.

The choice of learning exclusively in Basque shoots up to 84% among the youngest students, while groups of parents denounce that in provinces like Guipúzcoa there is not a single public center that offers teaching in Spanish, so they have to enroll their students. children in concerted schools.

Despite this majority enrollment in Basque, the

ikastolas

and EH Bildu advocate the disappearance of Spanish from classrooms, but also from schoolyards and even from the school environment so that immersion in Basque is total.

The reaction of the 'ikastolas'

"It will be important that these laws regulate the linguistic immersion model, and that they not limit themselves to establishing Basque as the vehicular language of schools, but also include the need for real environments for the practice of the orality of Basque among students ", the

ikastolas

maintain

in their immediate reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling.

A position shared by EH Bildu, who collects in a document entitled "Towards a sovereign public system" his priorities in the political negotiation that began last September with the Minister of Education,

Jokin Bildarratz

, to address the pending educational reform.

His proposal is based on the incorporation of the subsidized centers to the public network and the suppression of Castilian so that the training is only in Basque.

"A unique immersion model that is the most effective linguistic model for the creation of multilingual Basque speakers and proposes reorganizing the system's resources to provide it with the necessary content and resources, creating the Institute for the Acquisition of Euskera and the Transmission of Basque Culture "includes your proposal.

The demands of

ikastolas

and EH Bildu to promote the Basque language with the disappearance of Spanish comes after it was found, according to reports from the Basque Government, that not even

model D

students were able

to prove a level of knowledge and use of Basque when they finished their studies .

According to

reports from the Basque Institute for Evaluation and Research, the system used fails to

competition in Basque Castilian nor in students of the

Model D

.

A huge setback for the most expensive public education in Spain, which also obtains mediocre results in international assessment tests such as PISA.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Bildu

  • Catalonia

  • Spain

  • Basque Country

  • Supreme court

  • Education

CataloniaReferents of constitutionalism launch a manifesto as the embryo of a new party or electoral platform

CataloniaBestiary of the ghost government of Puigdemont for its nonexistent republic

Covid passport, the legal tool to limit the activities of the unvaccinated

See links of interest

  • Last News

  • Holidays 2021

  • 2022 business calendar

  • Basque Holidays

  • What

  • Home THE WORLD TODAY

  • Spartak Moscow - Napoli

  • Besiktas - Ajax

  • Internazionale - Shakhtar Donetsk

  • Atlético de Madrid - Milan

  • Club Brugge - RB Leipzig