The Department of Education finalizes a new secondary curriculum decree that will reduce teaching hours and introduce two hours of the Music subject in the third year.
This was detailed in an interview with Europa Press by the regional Secretary of Education, Daniel McEvoy, who revealed that the administration is already working with “an almost final draft.”
“We would have made that decree in any case, but we have also been forced because the previous regulations were appealed before the courts and certain aspects were repealed,” he recalled in reference to the decision of the Department of Education to rectify the government’s decision. of the Botànic to reduce two teaching hours in the schedule of students in the first, second and third years of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) after canceling the obligation to teach the Interdisciplinary Project subject.
“At the beginning of the course we were a little criticized because we came out with this resolution, which the only thing it promoted was security for families,” defended McEvoy, who pointed out that, “as the teachers were already assigned, we thought it was not acceptable.” that the students had fewer teaching hours than those established in the decree”.
Now, he has advanced, the new decree that is being prepared “will go along the lines of reducing the teaching hours of Secondary students.” In this way, “those hours will be 30-30 in first and second, and 32-32 in third and fourth.” Another novelty is that the subject of Music is introduced in the third year, which is “a great demand in the Valencian Community.”
On the other hand, the regional secretary has stressed the importance that this team gives to “the culture of effort”, always “within the margins allowed by the law.” At this point, he recalled, for example, that the course promotion of students is basic regulations, of the organic law and the royal development decrees, with which in the CCAA “we can change little.”
However, and as the councilor, José Antonio Rovira, already advanced, the numerical grades will be recovered, like other autonomies.
“These numerical grades, on the one hand, make it easier for parents to understand the grades given to the children. And on the other hand, in procedures in which there is a competitive attendance, it means that the person who got the result is not the same. a 9 than the one who got a 10”, he concluded.
