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

ValenciaThe PP and Vox are consolidating their secessionist strategy and the Ministry of Education will culminate the sidelining of Catalan and Balearic authors from the Valencian subject. This will be done this Tuesday by modifying the curriculum of the subject in the baccalaureate stage in the Sectorial Board of Education. This was confirmed to ARA by sources from the Department of Education, after the Union of Workers of Education of the Valencian Country (STEPV) warned of the measure, already announced by conservatives and ultras last September.

According to these sources, the new curriculum plans to "prioritize the presence of Valencian authors". The executive avoided explaining how this preference will be concreted and defended that the norm will maintain "an open approach" that will not limit the choice of works, as they will have to be "concreted later in each educational center". The most probable thing is that this intended flexibility will mean that only Valencian authors will be mandatory, and that Balearic or Catalan authors will be studied in a complementary way if the institute or the teacher considers it appropriate. If the new curriculum is approved, the measure will represent a substantial change, given that at present, in the baccalaureate stage, Catalan authors such as Mercè Rodoreda and Maria Mercè Marçal are studied compulsorily, and, complementarily –depending on the criteria of the teaching staff–, others such as Prudenci Bertrana, Pere Calder.

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 baccalaureate curriculum: it will promote the designation of "Valencian" for the language.

STEPV has denounced that these reforms originate from the agreements between the PP and Vox, considering that the popular party "had never dared to develop such a strong strategy to attack, conflictualize, and corner Valencian, not only in the educational system, but as a whole." Faced with this situation, the union called on all teaching staff, but especially on Valencian teachers, to disregard the new curriculum decree and attend this Saturday, February 28, the demonstrations called for in Alicante, Valencia, and Castellón, and the strike planned for March 31 to denounce the actions of the current government of the Generalitat.