More than 200 Valencian schools sign a manifesto against the censorship of Catalan and island authors

ValenciaUp to 205 Catalan departments in secondary schools across the Valencian Community have already signed a manifesto against the proposed changes to the high school curriculum decree, which aim to make the study of Catalan and Balearic Island writers optional. The teachers oppose the Education Ministry's intention to amend the sections of the current curriculum that refer to the unity of the Catalan language and establish the need to study its dialects and literary movements. Specifically, the Popular Party government, in agreement with Vox, intends to remove references to linguistic unity from the document and limit the subject matter to "the dialectal varieties of Valencian" and "the main Valencian authors." This is a key element, given that this document forms the basis from which universities must develop entrance exams for higher education and determine the works that students must know to pass them, a circumstance that, in practice, dictates what is studied in high school.

The regional education ministry's proposal has received amendments, such as those from the Valencian Country Teachers' Union, which demands that the text be modified "so as not to limit the possibility of studying authors from across the Catalan linguistic domain," as well as all its dialects. The regional government, as they told ARA, maintains that its proposal maintains "an open approach" that does not limit the choice of works and authors, which must be "specified later in each educational center." However, it overlooks the fact that this selection is based on the content required for university entrance exams, which, in turn, are based on the curriculum approved by the regional education ministry.

Just like for STEPV, the more than 200 Catalan departments in Valencian secondary schools consider the curriculum modification promoted by the PP with the support of Vox to be "censorship" that is "absurd from a scientific point of view" and unrelated to "pedagogical criteria." In this regard, the document states that it "only seeks to segment a literature and a culture for fanatical reasons" and calls for its withdrawal to avoid generating "situations as ridiculous as excluding [the subject] from the curriculum." Book of the deeds of James I"