The Constitutional Court has accepted for processing the unconstitutionality appeal presented by Compromís against the educational ‘freedom’ law of the Consell de Carlos Mazón. The Valencian coalition celebrates that the high court sees weighty 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 from 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, with the admission of this appeal “we demonstrate that the more institutions we have representation, the more force we can do to promote actions like this: without having unified the wills of various groups Parliamentarians of Congress, we would never have been able to promote this appeal, which we consider one of the most forceful actions that we can carry out to ensure that such a disastrous law is invalidated.
The Compromís Education spokesperson in the Corts Valencianas, Gerard Fullana, has commented that they are “very satisfied” that the Constitutional Court has accepted the appeal for processing, “because it means that there are clear indications of unconstitutionality in the Mazón Educational Law.” Therefore, he maintains, “this law has to be paralyzed and cannot change the educational system when there is a court so important that it will judge the possible illegalities of the regulations.”
“We are very critical that Mazón has accelerated one of the elements of this law through an emergency procedure this week, with everything that is happening, and that he has done so to divert attention from all the serious responsibilities he has. in the DANA catastrophe,” Fullana continued.
Regarding the procedures to which Fullana refers, he describes that it is a public exhibition to promote the referendum that aims for 800,000 Valencian families, “in some cases to lose the educational program they wanted, and in others to enroll their children blindly on next course.”
Likewise, the Valencian regional parliamentarian has spoken about the language referendum as a “trap mechanism” for families to “choose” the language in which they want their children to study. The text “demonstrates that it is a crude pantomime, under the banner of freedom and when you read it carefully you find that the only thing that is assured is that not a single family will be guaranteed the choice of educational model at the time of enrollment “It’s a scam,” he denounces.
“The proposal turns public schools into absolute chaos, given that referendums will be repeated every year and each course may have different models, making it impossible to coordinate cycles or programs like Xarxa Llibres,” Fullana highlighted, adding: “ On the other hand, in the concerted centers, illegal referendums will not be carried out and it will be the management of the centers that will decide the projects. The families of the subsidized centers will be the only ones who will know about the center’s educational project before the enrollment of their sons and daughters,” highlighted the Compromís Education spokesperson.
Fullana recalls that Mazón’s educational law “obliges” Valencian families who have to enroll their children for the next course not to know in which language they will receive classes and “prevents” students from Spanish-speaking areas “from being able to learn in Valencian and mastery of the two official languages.”
The PP law, he says, “allows teachers without training to teach classes in Valencian for non-linguistic subjects and thus violates the right of students to receive classes in Valencian for other subjects.”
Likewise, he continues, “there are judicial precedents against a good part of the provisions of this law through seven rulings, both from the Constitutional Court and the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.” Furthermore, the appeal for unconstitutionality “points out that Mazón’s law to marginalize Valencian in the classrooms fails to comply with 28 articles of higher laws: eight of the Constitution, sixteen of the state educational law, one of the Statute of Autonomy and three royal decrees” .
Furthermore, Fullana concludes, the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community has already rejected one of the measures that are included in this education law of the Valencian PP: “It is about each student being able to choose a language to take the exams and this goes against the objective of acquiring knowledge that is linked to the official language in which a subject is taught. The same occurs with the language of curricular and instructional materials.”
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