PP and Vox have broken the unity of action in Les Corts and have presented different amendments to their educational freedom law that both parliamentary groups presented a few weeks ago. The popular ones include, in their modifications, that “textbooks and curricular materials must respect the linguistic denomination provided for in article 6 of the Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community and must follow the official linguistic regulations.” A double requirement that does not ensure the support of the ultras for the proposal.
And with its formulation the PP asks that the name Valencian established by the Magna Carta be respected, which would make it difficult to equate it with Catalan in all the issues that refer to the dialectal variants of the Catalan language that are explained in the textbooks and that talk about the unity of language. At this point, Vox’s support for the proposal seems feasible, but not for the second part that refers to compliance with official regulations.
Although it is not specified in the amendment, it is the statute that establishes that the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL) “is the regulatory institution of the Valencian language.” Vox has always defended the alternative norms of El Puig that reject the unity of the language and spelling of the AVL.
It is not the only difference between the amendments of some and others. Vox does demand, in Primary, that “during the entire stage the area of Mathematics or Knowledge of the Natural, Social and Cultural Environment be taught in the base language chosen by the student’s legal representatives.”
Yes, there is agreement in both parties, although they have been presented in different amendments, so that in the entrance tests, in non-linguistic subjects, the evaluation exams can be carried out in the desired language. So, as the PP summarizes in one of its amendments, “at all stages, in non-linguistic subjects, regardless of their language, students will have the right to take exams and evaluation tests, both partial and final, in Valencian or Spanish, at your choice.”
Furthermore, in another amendment, the popular ones propose that students who have not been evaluated as Valencian in any of the last three school years, in the university admission tests, will have the right to request exemption from the Valencian test.