The “positive debate” requested by deputy Albert Batet at the opening of the plenary on education, requested by his Junts party, and held in Parliament yesterday, constituted the general tone during the three hours that the monograph lasted. “A calm debate, without dogmatism and with the will to reach agreements”, he explained. And the minister offered, without amending in the slightest the work of her predecessor, which she praised in eleven points, a new tone inviting dialogue. And he took note of the contributions of the deputies.
The most pronounced word, even by the president Pere Aragonès and by the councilor herself, was “change of course”. A change of direction that allows consensus to reach better results for all students, without forgetting the axis of social cohesion. Just yesterday the Government approved the entry of 1,520 professionals into the system for the coming academic year, including teachers, educational and administrative staff.
The monograph was used to defend the Catalan school model, with Catalan as the vehicular language as a “basic factor of social inclusion and structuring of Catalan society”. Together, the ERC presented a joint proposal in this regard that will be voted on Thursday, which revalidates what was already agreed a year ago with the law on the use of official languages ??at school.
But there were other words in an educational key: “improvement in reading comprehension”, “fight against school dropout”, “against segregation”, “inclusive education”, “mental health”, “dialogue”, “rebuild trust with the community”, “recognition of educators”, “improve educational results”, “reversal of the cuts”.
The minister did not offer specific actions to improve education, but she did give hints about future interventions. In reading comprehension, for example, he pointed out that errors occur in the early stages of learning to read, so he implied that the solution to this problem will not come only from the national reading plan, as had ventured
In mathematics, students make mistakes in the basics, but also in solving problems because they do not understand the statements. Likewise, he pointed out that there are no studies that link the worse performance in reading comprehension of students who have another mother tongue, and went ahead to the speech of Lorena Roldán, of the PP, which denied it.
The socialist Esther Niubó spoke of more self-demand and the search for concrete results such as the increase in basic skills in a legislature, with 40% of students with high performance. For this reason, the PSC has presented six resolution proposals in which it outlines a road map with support for teachers, families, reinforcement classes for students who need it and including the sixth hour in centers of complexity. More English It defends inclusive education with immediate starts and the incorporation of professionals in the centres. It also bets on new opportunity schools and reception classrooms.
The member of Junts proposed to focus academic efforts on core curricular subjects and work on other subjects as extracurriculars, since “the school cannot do everything”. He rejected the 100 euros that families will receive in terms of materials, regardless of their income. “Was it necessary?” he asked the president. He also questioned the free I2 or the lack of substitute teachers. “What will he do with the 4th grade ESO students with low skills who leave the system?”, he continued. “We lack concreteness”, he reproached the councillor. He defended, on the other hand, the role of the concerted. “Negotiate in Madrid”, he urged.
Mònica Palacín, from ERC, focused her presentation on Catalan, school dropouts and bullying. His partitha presented four proposals for resolution on the promotion of the language, the fight against segregation and the inclusive school, sustainability and school dropout.
