Chaos in ESO: the autonomies are divided between those who will put a numerical note and those who will not

• Education Madrid also rebels against the Government and will maintain numerical qualifications in schools and institutes

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

Madrid

,

,

,

and

have distanced themselves from the Government and will maintain numerical grades in compulsory education as a way of "valuing the effort of the students."

Meanwhile, regions such as

or

will remove them and will be governed by more qualitative criteria.

According to the first autonomous decrees of

and

, to which EL MUNDO has had access, the CCAA have been divided into two groups when interpreting the state criteria.

One will follow Minister Pilar Alegría to the letter.

Another, made up of the regions governed by the PP, has greatly expanded the contents, has opted not to lower the bar and has continued to give more importance to knowledge than to attitudes and values, using all the legal loopholes to organize an alternative education to that of the Government.

These are the differences:

Evaluation

The

it has removed the numerical qualifications in Primary and ESO and has left them in

.

Now it will only be possible to speak of

,

,

,

or

.

It is the system followed by the decrees of Navarra or Castilla-La Mancha.

But many teachers and parents prefer numerical grades because a 1 is not the same

a

or a

as an

.

Madrid, Galicia, Murcia, Castilla y León and Andalusia will keep the traditional scale from 1 to 10, which will also preserve the number plates with honors and honorable mentions, which Alegría has also eliminated.

So that the Ministry of Education does not challenge its regulations, these regions will link, for example, 8 and 9 to Outstanding.

"A note cannot appear in the evaluation minutes and any other official document," they recall in Alegría's team, which has already warned that "the Government will act if any issue contravenes the law."

History

The decree of the ESO of Madrid recovers in History everything that has disappeared in the state: Roman

, the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula,

, the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon, the

, the discovery of America, the Habsburgs, Carlos V, Felipe II, the 30 Years War, the

the War of Independence, Isabel II, the Restoration, Alfonso XIII... and so on to this day.

Galicia is also going to recover in the Baccalaureate the contents of the History of Spain prior to

, while Murcia values ​​the Spanish national identity, just the opposite of what

does .

Navarra flees from the chronological approach and has "an approach based on relevant social problems" that seek to "awaken" the "student's conscience."

Concrete facts are not cited, but the "vital minimum", "sexist attitudes and behaviors" or the "alliance between civilizations" are addressed.

Students will have to study, for example, "social inequality and the struggle for power" or the "interpretation of the capitalist system from its origins to the present".

"Socioaffective"

To "avoid indoctrination", Madrid has removed terms such as "ecofeminism", "gender perspective", "ecosocial" or "ecodependency".

In his curriculum there is no mention of the controversial "socio-affective sense" of

, although emotions will be addressed in this subject.

suspended

Madrid has not been as forceful as Murcia, which forces the student to repeat if he fails four subjects.

Article 22 of the Madrid text limits itself to recommending to teachers: «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/she has a negative evaluation in three or more subjects.

It will be possible to pass the course with three failures if they are not both Language and Mathematics.

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.

Murcia uses a similar formula but speaks of a three-quarter majority.

This requirement that there be consensus among teachers is one of the issues that will probably generate legal conflicts, since the Ministry says that "the autonomy of teachers cannot be limited."

Alternative to Religion

Galicia offers a specific alternative to

: those who do not take it in ESO will do a project to develop key skills.

​​in the schedule

until leaving them in the weekly hour set by the Government.

Both regions recover

as an elective in the 4th year of ESO, as almost all the Autonomous Communities have done due to the disappearance of the subject in the state curriculum.

Murcia does not include a specific Philosophy subject but, within the Research Project, students will be able to choose between several topics and one is rhetoric and argumentation.

Grammar and logarithms

In

of ESO, Madrid puts more grammar, the Golden Age and the Generation of 98. In Mathematics, it has added logarithms in 4th, the hierarchy of operations, the square root, successions, the Ruffini rule ... Also incorporates the absolute value of an integer;

obtaining, from its factorial decomposition, the greatest common divisor and the least common multiple of two numbers;

arithmetic and geometric progressions, and the division and factorization of polynomials.

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