The Constitutional Court has agreed to deal with the appeal of unconstitutionality presented by Compromís against the educational “freedom” law of the Consell de Carlos Mazón. The Valencian coalition welcomes the fact that the Superior Court sees important content and indications of unconstitutionality in the norm promoted by the Minister of Education, José Antonio Rovira. Compromís promoted the text with the signature of fifty deputies of the Valencian party, Sumar, Podemos, Bildu, ERC, Junts and BNG, considering that the law goes against the linguistic rights of students recognized in the Statute of Autonomy, in the Spanish Constitution and several higher-ranking educational laws.
According to the spokesperson for Compromís in the Congress of Deputies, Àgueda Mico, by admitting this call “we demonstrate that the more institutions we have represented, the more force we can exert to promote actions like this: without having unified the wishes of the various parliamentary groups in Congress, we could never have promoted this appeal, which we consider to be one of the most energetic actions we can take to guarantee the invalidation of such a disastrous law.
The spokesperson for Compromís Education in the Corts Valencianas, Gerard Fullana, said that they were “very satisfied” that the Constitutional Court accepted the appeal for treatment, “because this means that there are clear indications of ‘unconstitutionality in Mazón’s educational law’. This is why, he asserts, “this law must be paralyzed and cannot change the education system while there is a court so important that it will judge the possible illegalities of the regulations”.
“We are very critical of the fact that Mazón accelerated one of the elements of this law through an emergency procedure this week, with everything that is happening, and that he did it to divert attention from all the serious responsibilities he bears in the DANA disaster. “, Fullana continued.
Regarding the procedures to which Fullana refers, he describes that it is a public exhibition to promote the referendum that targets 800,000 Valencian families, “in some cases to lose the educational program that they wanted, and in d ‘others to blindly register their children for the next course’. .”
Likewise, the Valencian regional parliamentarian spoke of the language referendum as a “trap mechanism” allowing families to “choose” the language in which they want their children to study. The text “demonstrates that it is a crude pantomime, under the sign of freedom and when we read it carefully, we discover that the only thing that is assured is that no family will have the guarantee of choice of the educational model at the time of registration. “It’s a scam,” he denounces.
“The proposal transforms public schools into absolute chaos, given that the referendums will be repeated every year and each course may have different models, which will make it impossible to coordinate cycles or programs like Xarxa Llibres,” Fullana emphasized , adding: “On the other hand, in the concerted centers, there will be no illegal referendums and it will be the management of the centers which will decide on the projects. The families of the subsidized centers will be the only ones to know the educational project of the center before the registration of their sons and daughters,” underlined the spokesperson for Compromís Education.
Fullana recalls that Mazón’s educational law “forces” Valencian families who must enroll their children in the next course not to know in which language they will receive lessons and “prevents” students from Spanish-speaking areas “from being able to learn in Valencian and master of both official languages.
The PP law, he says, “allows untrained teachers to give lessons in Valencian for non-linguistic subjects and thus violates the right of students to receive lessons in Valencian for other subjects”.
Likewise, he continues, “there are judicial precedents against a good part of the provisions of this law through seven judgments, both from the Constitutional Court and the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community”. Furthermore, the appeal for unconstitutionality “underlines that Mazón’s law aimed at marginalizing Valencian in classrooms does not respect 28 articles of higher laws: eight of the Constitution, sixteen of the State Educational Law, one of Statute of Autonomy and three royal decrees. “.
In addition, concludes Fullana, the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community has already rejected one of the measures included in this educational law of the Valencian PP: “It is a question of that each student can choose a language to take the exams and this defeats the purpose of acquiring knowledge related to the official language in which a subject is taught. The same thing happens with the language of school and teaching materials.
