While the Generalitat starts up its legal services to lodge an appeal against the interlocutor of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) that obliges it to apply 25% of Spanish in the classrooms within a period of two weeksthe parties that make up the Government still do not agree on how can the immersion model be shielded linguistics in the Catalan school, as foreseen in the current education law of Catalonia (LEC).
Thus, the ‘consellera’ of Research and Universities of the Generalitat, Gemma Geis, has opted this Monday to give “a country response” to the order of the TSJC, a response that passes, as Junts (party to which Geis belongs) has said on several occasions, by integrate the educational community and the organizations that defend the language in that deal. Marta Vilalta, Deputy General Secretary and ERC spokesperson, has insisted that the modification of the linguistic policy law is now “more urgent than ever”, after the “new attack” against the language that has come from the TSJC. The also Republican Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, Minister of Education He took the opportunity to ask for “the maximum political, social and pedagogical consensus” to defend the Catalan school model, assuring that next year “there will be more Catalan in schools than there is now”. And President Pere Aragonès has called on Twitter for “maximum unity” to “protect” the linguistic model in schools in Catalonia, because “now more than ever consensus and joining forces are needed.”
The Government will continue to defend and empower the school in Catalan. I protect the directors and directors of the country’s educational centers to defend a model that has proven to be pedagogically effective and socially inclusive.
Prou de judicialitzar l’Educació.
– Pere Aragonès i Garcia 🎗 (@perearagones) May 9, 2022
Junts sources insist that the four-party pact signed last March in Parliament to update the language law and legally shield it must also have the support of the educational community and entities in defense of immersion. Junts keeps its letters regarding what specific modifications it proposes to the wording agreed with Esquerra, the socialists and the ‘comuns’, although there are two basic questions: the protection of the directors of educational centers and teachers, before legal conflicts, and on the other hand further fine-tune the current wording regarding immersion. However, Junts maintains that what was agreed between the four forces in no case does it mean a retrogression of Catalan with respect to the current law, because Castilian is already a language of learning, according to the LEC.
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The unknown is to know how long will it take together to achieve or not this agreement, which has become a ‘sine qua non’ condition to continue stamping your signature and, above all, your votes in the decisive vote of the Parliament when the matter is put on the agenda of a parliamentary plenary session. Together he maintains that need more support but the educational community is plural, and goes from the concerted school to the Ustec union. And in the entities in favor of Catalan there is no unanimity either.
All this also comes in a internally convulsive context for Junts, on the verge of changing its address in the congress on June 4 and with internal negotiations between figures such as the president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs, who has participated in acts against the modification of the normalization law that Junts initially signed.