First day of school in the Valencian Community and there are already homework assignments on the table. According to the Valencian president, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, it is necessary to “exercise reflection” after the results known yesterday from the PISA report, which shows performance below average among Valencian students in science, mathematics, and reading. “None of the claims from STEPV, which is the majority union, refer to the shortcomings mentioned in the PISA report. They have never talked about improving mathematics or the teaching hours of language, so I call for reflection. There is much to improve in Education,” said the president.
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For the president, the steps taken by the Consell are a plan “that will undoubtedly improve, it is a start. What is truly needed in Education are agreements,” he emphasized. The head of the Consell responded this way to journalists’ questions at the opening of the academic year, which was held at the Palancia-Mijares Rural Grouped School in Caudiel, Castellón, where classes started this morning for about thirty students.
What is truly needed in Education are agreements”
Juanfran Pérez Llorca, president of the Generalitat Valenciana
The PISA report was also mentioned this morning, indirectly, by the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, who explained that it was she, during her time as Minister of Education, who requested the territorialization of the results that were made public yesterday. Catalá, who wanted to start the political year talking about new openings, municipal aid, and reconciliation measures, focused on the educational project, “because even though the results are not good, it is good that there is a debate about educational quality.” The mayor of Valencia acknowledged that in the educational field “the administrations have a long way to go,” but she celebrated the work done by her government during this time, such as the aid line for the “morning” service which is expanded this year for students from 0 to 6 years old, not just up to 3 years.
The school year in the Dana zone: complaints about delays in works and more emotional support
The Local Emergency and Reconstruction Committees (CLER) expressed this Wednesday their deep indignation at the “precarious” start of the school year in the “ground zero” area and warn of the serious deficiencies that many infrastructures still present just days before the start of a rainy season expected to be especially intense after the Mediterranean has broken temperature records. They argue that almost two years after the disaster, nearly 3,000 students from towns such as Massanassa, Alfafar, Paiporta, and Catarroja have returned to classrooms “without the Ministry of Education having started any reconstruction work on the educational centers that were destroyed.”
On the other hand, also in the Dana zone, the Department of Family, Youth, and Childhood of the Valencia City Council maintains this year two programs aimed at maintaining attention to children, youth, and families from the districts, including those affected by the floods, through a school educational support program and a psycho-emotional care service for families.
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Meanwhile, the Plataforma per l’Ensenyament presented this Wednesday its reasons to continue with the demonstration called for next Saturday in the main Valencian cities, at the start of a school year in which CSIF distances itself from the unions STEPV, UGT-PV, and CCOO-PV by requesting a “great pact for Education,” which also allows reversing the “terrible data” from the PISA report, which “should make politicians reflect. We are playing with the future,” said José Seco, president of CSIF Education Valencian Community.
CSIF, for its part, was the only union that agreed with the Ministry of Education on measures regarding Valencian, specifically, a monographic agreement focused on promoting and training teachers in Valencian. The union flatly rejects the proposal to make the native language the vehicular language, a proposal behind which the platform Famílies pel Valencià works, which this new school year has again called for the repeal of the Educational Freedom law, which promotes the consultation on the base language in classrooms.
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