The Students’ Union has called a general strike next Friday, October 11 throughout Spain. for ESO, Baccalaureate and FP students to protest against the new selectivity and to demand that the examination models of the new University Access Test (PAU) which they will face in June.
“We high school sophomores still don’t know what the tests that will determine our access to college will look like. Unbelievable but true. Even though we’ve been in class for almost a month, the only information we have “What we have is that the PAU university exams will take place on June 3, 4 and 5. That’s all,” the students said in a statement.
The strike will cover the entire school day on Friday (morning and afternoon) and comes after thousands of second year baccalaureate students mobilized via the change.org platform to demand before October 9 the new modelss PAU exam.
The student organization criticizes the fact that the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports and educational services “they maintain an intolerable silence” because, instead of presenting the changes and novelties before starting the course, allowing teachers to properly prepare the academic content, and ensuring that students have the opportunity to prepare for this test, at the beginning of October they still know “nothing “. “
Under the motto ‘Now we want the PAU exam pattern, Students will concentrate in different cities in Spain. The Students’ Union also expressed its rejection of “the police brutality suffered” in Murcia by nearly 2,000 young people who demonstrated against the lack of awareness of the new exams after around fifty riot police had to carry out detonations to stop objects that young people. people started.
The students ask for “clarity” around this test which will be released for the first time in June and in which there will be only one exam model and a minimum of 25% of questions of a competency nature.
“The Ministry of Education and educational services are laughing in our faces and playing with the mental health and futures of tens of thousands of students, adding more difficulty, more stress and more uncertainty to an ordeal whose raison d’être is to transform access to the University into a class privilege”, they indicate.
The coordination committees formed by the universities of the 17 districts and the Baccalaureate professors of each autonomous community are responsible for defining the new exam models and adapting them to the proposal agreed by the rectors of all Spanish universities.
The Community of Madrid announced that it will announce the exam models for each subject on October 17.
Teachers call for strike and protests to improve employment
THE majority teaching unionsCCOO, ANPE, CSIF and UGT will also mobilize from October 16 to November 21 in favor of improvements in work and wages and the reduction of class hours, among other causes.
“For teachers, for public education” is the motto of this appeal which includes rallies, marches in the center of Madrid and actions in educational centers.
Teachers are calling for a reduction in teaching hours to 18 hours in secondary education and vocational training and to 23 hours in early childhood and primary education, as well as the equalization of salaries between teachers and professors and the reduction of ratios in classes. In the same sense, they demand the negotiation of new quotas and ratios for groups with vulnerable groups and a “shock plan against bureaucracy”.
The mobilizations They will start on October 16 with a rally in front of the Ministry of Education in Madrid, and will continue on October 29 with a strike and march from Plaza de Neptuno to Puerta del Sol. On November 14, teachers will gather in front of the Madrid Assembly and on the 21st of that month they will again call for a strike and demonstration in the city center.
