After a busier than expected first quarter [primero por la contagiosa rebelión contra los móviles y, después, por los pésimos resultados de PISA y el posterior temblor político, mediático y social]the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, has received in Madrid this Thursday at the Minister of Education, Anna Simó, who has reviewed with her the 13 pages of her work plan. Among a long list of requests, Simo has insisted to Alegria on the need to obtain resources to “welcome” migrant students in Catalan classrooms. “We cannot host alone,” said the counselor after a meeting of almost two hours.
That was, in fact, one of the first conclusions that I left. the latest PISA reportin which students of foreign origin, 24% in Catalonia, obtained an average of 43 points less in mathematics (more than two years) compared to non-migrants, a difference greater than the Spanish average (32.5 points). .
The councilor has asked the minister to “calm down”: the last thing schools need is more news
In statements to the press after the meeting, Simó also stressed that “The centers need calm, the last thing they need is more news“, in reference to the concatenation of educational laws that have been approved in the last 20 years (one of the few issues in which there is consensus among all actors involved).
The new selectivity
“We have addressed the most urgent issues, such as the new selectivity tests and that the FP Law, which is good, does not have a economic memory. Organic laws cannot be made without economic memory. If we must push forward all the news of the FP, we find that we do not have enough resourcesso we have asked co-responsibility“, Simó has pointed out. Specifically, for the new FP, Catalonia needs, Simó has insisted, spaces.
Minister and councilor have also talked about “the need and importance of the new teaching study plans”, which depend on Madrid, but in which the councilor is very clear that she wants to influence, especially on issues such as the introduction of credits about coeducation, linguistic immersion or inclusive school.
Simó has put on the table pending issues such as fighting against premature school leaving and school segregation
Regarding this last issue, a truly inclusive school, something that is still very far from being a reality in Catalan classrooms, Simó has also asked Alegría for resources, just as to fight against premature school leaving or school segregation, other major issues. pending subjects.
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Simó points out that “there have been harmony between both, what to see what is specified“.
As to the mobile issue, the councilor says that they agree on the need for “regulation” in secondary school and that “in children and primary school the cell phone does not have to do absolutely anything.” For January, the minister has called a meeting with the autonomous communities on this issue, which is the responsibility of the autonomies.