• Education Murcia launches an alternative ESO to the Government with more demands and Alegría warns it that it cannot "contravene the law"

  • Education The Government removes the numerical grades also in ESO

  • Education Education does not detail the facts of History that ESO students must study throughout Spain

The president of the

Community of Madrid

, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has also rebelled against the new study plan proposed by the

Government

and in her

ESO

curriculum (12-16 years), to which EL MUNDO has had access, she will maintain the numerical qualifications in the evaluation minutes and the main historical facts from antiquity to the present day.

All the autonomies are writing these days their part of the agendas that will be in the educational centers next September.

They occupy 50% of school hours in the regions with a co-official language and 40% in the rest.

The first to spread them has been

Catalonia

, which, in addition to championing learning by areas of knowledge, reinforces concepts such as "identities", "resistance to oppression" or "national emancipation", speaks of acquiring "linguistic belonging" to Catalan and suppresses quarterly grades .

Murcia

, on the other hand, is committed to reinforcing episodes in

history

that value the unity of Spain;

keeps grades from

1

to

10

and the limit of failures to pass the course, and asks for a minimum grade of 5 to graduate from ESO.

In between the two regions, although closer to Murcia, is the Community of Madrid, which has used all the loopholes allowed by law to organize alternative compulsory education to that of the Government.

To begin with, he still considers the traditional rating system valid, the numerical one, which Minister Pilar Alegría's team considers very "quantitative" and not very "qualitative".

The Ministry of Education has removed the numerical notes, the honors and the honorable mentions in

Primary

and ESO, although it has left them in

Baccalaureate

.

Everything will have to be expressed in terms of Insufficient, Sufficient, Good, Remarkable or Outstanding, but without putting a coefficient.

Madrid, on the other hand, will keep them in all educational stages, both in the report cards and in the evaluation records.

In the article dedicated to how the evaluation minutes will be, a sentence has been included that says: "The results of the evaluation will be related to the grades, in such a way that insufficient (IN) will be indicated for the grades with values ​​between 1 and 4, Fair (SF) for a 5-value rating, Good (BI) for a 6-value rating, Good (NT) for a 7- or 8-value rating, and Outstanding (SB) for a 9- or 10-value rating. .

This question is going to generate legal controversy, because the sources consulted in the Ministry of Education maintain that "a note cannot appear in the evaluation records and any other official documentation."

Madrid will also maintain the way of teaching History as it has been conceived until now, both in the PP law (

Lomce

) and in those of the PSOE (

Logse

and

LOE

).

In line with the recommendations of the Royal Academy of History, the State Council and the State School Council, the counselor

Enrique Ossorio

proposes a chronological and linear approach to the subject, with the learning of specific historical events, both current like from the past.

He thus distances himself from Alegría, whose curriculum focuses on Contemporary History, especially that of the 20th century, and emphasizes emotional and attitudinal aspects over knowledge.

In Madrid, on the other hand, ESO students will have to make maps and will study the Romanesque, the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula, Al-Andalus, the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon, the Catholic Monarchs, the discovery of America, the Austrians, Carlos V and Felipe II, the 30 Years War, the Habsburgs, the War of Independence, Elizabeth II, The Restoration, the world wars, the crisis of 29, the Cold War, Alfonso XIII. .. and so to this day.

"Do not use terms like ecofeminism"

"We have tried to avoid indoctrination in the curricula as much as possible, that is why in our autonomous part we do not use terms such as ecofeminism or ecodependency, which, in addition, the

Royal Academy of Language

does not admit ," explain sources from the Madrid Government.

Regarding the failures, Madrid has not been as forceful as Murcia, which expressly expresses that it will be possible to pass the course with a maximum of three failures but it will be necessary to repeat yes or yes with four.

Article

22

of the Madrid text authorizes promotion with one, two or even three pending subjects (if they are not

Language

and

Mathematics

at the same time ).

But it does not force to repeat with four.

The formula used is as follows: "To facilitate decision-making on the promotion of students by teaching teams, they may take into consideration that a student will repeat a year when he or she has a negative evaluation in three or more subjects. Likewise, with the same purpose, exceptionally, they may decide to promote a student with a negative evaluation in three subjects when the following conditions are met: a) That two of the subjects with a negative evaluation are not simultaneously Spanish Language and Literature and Mathematics. ) That the teaching team considers that the nature of the subjects with a negative evaluation does not prevent the student from successfully following the next course, that they have favorable recovery expectations and that promotion will benefit their academic evolution".

Of course, it introduces a novelty that does not appear in the state curriculum: to let a student pass a course with many failures, two thirds of the members of the teaching team will have to agree.

That is, an absolute majority.

Murcia uses a similar formula but, instead of two thirds, it speaks of a qualified majority of three quarters.

This requirement that there be consensus among teachers is one of the issues that is likely to generate legal conflicts, since the sources consulted in the

Ministry of Education

say that "teachers' autonomy and capacity cannot be limited."

The Government is going to analyze all the curricula with a magnifying glass.

In this sense, Alegría already warned Murcia last week that "what cannot be done in any case is to contravene a law approved in the

Congress of Deputies

and, if there is any question that contravenes, the Government will act."

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