With less than a month to go before the deadline to execute the 25% Castilian sentence expires on March 20, the Generalitat continues to forge a strategy to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling that blows up the immersion.

This Tuesday, the Government has published a report on the situation of Catalan in which it defends that "the available data do not support the existence of any deficit in learning Spanish that recommends modifying the design of the model in a general way to reinforce its use as a vehicular language.

The study has been prepared by a group of experts at the request of the Catalan Executive and presented at the first session of the National Pact for Language, the conclave in which the Generalitat intends to design a legal reform to shield immersion and which, in addition to the independence forces, has the support of the PSC.

"Establishing an arbitrary percentage of vehicular use of languages ​​for the entire educational system has no pedagogical justification," says the document, entitled An egalitarian sociolinguistic framework for the Catalan language, and to which the Cabinet led by

Pere Aragonès

intends to cling to in order to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling.

The report calls for "resituting the discussion on the proportionality in the vehicular use of languages ​​within the framework of the objectives and not of the theoretical hours of teaching and updating the linguistic model away from the dialectic of percentages of uniform application in the whole of the educational system”.

That is, not to implement the 25% of teaching hours in Spanish imposed by the Supreme Court.

"The sociolinguistic reality of the country requires a multilingual design adaptable to the needs of each context", emphasize the experts consulted by the Generalitat to validate the intention of the Government, which a few weeks ago approved a decree that left it in the hands of the directors of the centers Modulate the number of hours of Spanish based on the sociolinguistic reality of the population in which the educational center in question is located.

The draft of the decree of basic education teachings -which affects both Primary and ESO- determines that «the centers will have a percentage of the weekly schedule that they will manage autonomously.

This ERC maneuver, which controls the Department of Education of the Generalitat, comes to resurrect the proposal of the former Republican councilor

Josep Bargalló

, who in 2018 proposed a relaxation of immersion in mostly Catalan-speaking areas.

«In contexts in which Spanish does not have social force and is not the first language of a large part of the students, a didactic approach close to the one we use with second languages ​​will have to be adopted (linguistic immersion in the case of Catalan).

If the number of hours of exposure to this language is not sufficient to reach the same level of Catalan and Spanish at the end of the educational system, the center must decide, in its linguistic project, to incorporate blocks of curricular content in Spanish. read the immersion revision project, which was buried before the inflamed reaction of sectors of separatism.

The ERC ruse also has options to please the PSC, which in 2019 proposed in its congress a "flexibility" of immersion, which also ended up burying the controversy in the most Catalanist wing of the party.

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