The language immersion model is a failure. The cause is not a few more hours in Spanish. The issue is that what was created in the year 92, after the famous decree of immersion (75/1992), it stopped being useful. The legislators of the time did not think about the changes in society.
One thing is certain: Catalan is always and will be at a disadvantage. The strength of Spanish is overwhelming. But by hindering the academic use of Spanish, little is achieved. The evidence is clear. Catalan stopped being a transgressive, agile and changing language, despite its beauty and richness. Now, however, there are some experiences that will be talked about or sung, based on rap.
In reality, no one has favored both languages. Not the bullies, willing to accept three hours in English and two in Spanish, nor the obfuscated ones who tried to transfer the teaching in Castilian to the private schools with subsidies, Wert time. And that in an autonomy where, at most, there are only 34 private schools and most of them are international.
In the 1980s, nationalism understood that, by making an immersion in Catalan primary school (EGB), By immersing all the subjects in a single language logic, he would be able to distance the new generations from their mother tongues. But it was not like that.
The right decision in those years, driven above all by the Catalan left (PSC-PSUC), by the need for a single network of schools, unlike the Basque Country, facilitated social cohesion. Those were the times of the normalization and acquisition of progressive knowledge of the language.
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But pujolismo was transforming the concepts and the Catalan socialists did not know how to explain themselves. The absolute majority of 1984 knocked them out and they stayed that way for a long, long time.
Now Salvador Illa, Although criticized by the devotees of immersion, he responded intelligently to Josep Cuní’s question. “I don’t think it’s bad that a subject is taught in Spanish, apart from Spanish & rdquor ;. Which is 25%. And is that mixing languages and politics is bad.
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