THE complaint of a family reveals the tips of a school in Valencia – and it is not the only one – to not to comply with the minimum of 25% from class to Castilian from 2022: they count in this quota hours of tutoring, ethics and religion, instead of “hard” basic subjects, as requested by this parent of a student, while awaiting a response to an appeal.
Furthermore, another parent of a student in the next class has already managed to obtain the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) ordered, by precautionary measures, that this percentage be respected, as published ABC.
At that time, the association We speak Spanish -who advised and managed these disputes- requested the execution of the said judicial resolution and the Department of Education, Universities and Employment announced that the Educational inspection will make a report, because at the CEIP Guillem d’Entença center, in El Puig (Valencia), they assure that they adhere to the Linguistic Project (PLC) of the Center and that there are no irregularities.
Indeed, in the information contained in this document – to which you had access ABC– This distribution of the teaching schedule is established, where it is clear how the distribution is balanced so that, in practice, teaching in Spanish is completely relegated. Concretely, it is reduced to the Spanish language subject itself, to tutoring time – which is obviously not evaluated by exams and does not count for the student’s future – to religion and social values and civic (known as ethics).
Distribution of the school timetable between Valencian, English and Spanish, at school reported by two families
“The minimum is not reached, it has no longer been used in the main subjects since March 2022, when the change in mathematics was approved because we had it in Spanish in primary school and during the transition to high school, it was in Valencian, but with Coneixement del Medi It was the opposite and they did not change it”, explains Francisco JM, about the origin of the maneuver consisting of giving all the weight of teaching to one language to the detriment of the other.
That is to say, the good criterion of giving continuity to a subject in the same language of instruction in the next educational level was applied only when it came to Valencian, however, it was ignored for the Spanish, without any type of educational coherence. “With this excuseat the school council, they changed the Mathematics to Valencian, but not to the other, while in knowing the environment, the language of learning the words is important”, he emphasizes.
“All the documentation was sent to them and there was a meeting with the inspector and with a representative of Hablamos Español, they looked at it and said there was nothing, so I presented the resource of elevation“, adds this father, also awaiting compliance with the TSJCV order, which provides for its application in the entire class, and not only among the student of the complaining family. “My son would be excluded, I should still fight based on the judgment favorable to the other parent”, he emphasizes, since his case belongs to another group of students, even if it is the same primary year.
Indeed, from the association he chairs Gloria Lake and served as mediator in both cases, they have repeatedly denounced that this way of inflating Spanish hours is repeated in many other educational centers, also including activities such as theater.
