Group proposes that 25% class time be offered in Catalan in Spanish-speaking areas of Valencia

  • Escola Valenciana wants to take advantage of the recent TSJC ruling that requires that 25% of classes in Catalonia be taught in Spanish

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01.05.2014 - 09:09

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Escola Valencian is studying how it can adapt the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of Catalonia—which affirms the requirement that 25% of classes be offered with Spanish as the language of instruction—to the context of Valencia. The group has turned the judicial ruling on its head and is looking at how to apply a minimum of 25% of instruction in Valencian (the name for Catalan used in Valencia) in those areas qualified as Spanish-speaking by the Ministry of Education and in which parents cannot currently choose multilingual education programs, with two classes in their own language. Escola Valenciana says that it has contacts through the Office of Linguistic Rights with families that would like to sign their children up to these programs.

To this end, Escola Valenciana’s legal advisors have gotten in touch with groups in Galicia, the Basque Country, Navarre and the Balearic Islands to study joint legal action that would guarantee a principle of linguistic equality of all citizens of the Spanish State and which would look out for the languages that are specific to each territory.

At the same time, Escola Valenciana points out that the application of 25% of class time in any language “doesn’t follow any pedagogical criteria and this judicial measure weakens quality educational programs, like the linguistic immersion system which has given optimal results throughout the world, wherever there are various official languages”.

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