The PP and Vox confirm the veto on Valencian students studying Catalan and Balearic authors

ValenciaThe People's Party (PP) and Vox are consolidating their secessionist strategy, and the Valencian Ministry of Education will complete the marginalization of Catalan and Balearic authors in the Valencian language curriculum. This will be done on Tuesday through modifications to the curriculum for the subject at the high school level at the Sectoral Education Committee. Sources within the Department of Education confirmed this to ARA, after the Valencian Country Teachers' Union (STEPV) warned of the measure, which had already been announced by conservatives and far-right parties last September. According to these sources, the new curriculum aims to "prioritize the presence of Valencian authors." The government avoided explaining how this preference will be implemented and maintained that the regulation will maintain "an open approach" that will not limit the selection of works, as these will have to be "specified later in each educational center." It is most likely that this proposed flexibility will mean that only Valencian authors will be compulsory, and that Balearic or Catalan authors will be studied as supplementary material if the school or teacher deems it appropriate. If the new curriculum is approved, the measure will represent a substantial change, given that currently, in the baccalaureate stage, Catalan authors such as Mercè Rodoreda and Maria Mercè Marçal are studied as compulsory subjects, and others such as Prudenci Bertrana and Pere Calder are studied as supplementary material—depending on the teacher's discretion.

With the same objective of weakening the unity of Catalan that certain conservative sectors of Valencian society have pursued for decades, the Generalitat will also increase linguistic secessionism in the dialectology section of the high school curriculum: it will promote the designation of the language as "Valencian." The STEPV (Teachers' Union of the Valencian Country) has denounced that these reforms originate from the agreements between the PP (People's Party) and Vox, given that they believe the PP "had never dared to develop such a strong strategy to attack, create conflict, and marginalize Valencian, not only in the education system, but in society as a whole." In light of this situation, the union called on all teachers, but especially Valencian language teachers, to disregard the new curriculum decree and attend the demonstrations called for this Saturday, February 28th, in Alicante, Valencia, and Castellón, as well as the strike planned for March 31st, to denounce the actions of the current Valencian government.