The Council of Ministers gave the green light on April 5 to the Royal Decree, which includes rules and questions new high school. The government sold it as more varied and flexible, emphasizing the expansion of modalities that go from two to four, or the possibility of obtaining a title with an unfinished subject. That, without a doubt, would already be doubtful. But, as we will see below, the basic question goes much further.
LOMLOpromoted by CEO Pedro Sanchez, is “the most ideological law that was in the history of Spain”. So says the architect Javier Rubio Donzeco-founder of the learning platform Games Academy – who was born in 2015 and is already followed by about 5 million people – and the author of three educational books on history.
After the new undergraduate decree was read in full, Rubio had no room for doubt: “This is real nonsense and absolute nonsense”. “He puts ideology in everything, everywhere,” he exclaims. Thus we come, for example, to mathematics “from a gender point of view”an expression so loved by the Spanish left of the 21st century.
words matter
The ESO Decree is no stranger to this trend. “They talk about it all the time social affective approach mathematics, it’s an amazing thing,” says Rubio. So let’s count – with much love – how many times that certain words appear, conveniently chosen and squeezed into both edicts.
in Compulsory secondary education we find that the word respect and its derivatives flood the text: 216 times; variety appears 142 times; gender is listed at 140; emotions and derivatives, 113; liabilities and derivatives, 92; equality, 86; sustainable development, 59; sex and derivatives, 58; empathy and derivatives, 41; feeling, 29; stability, 16; justice, 14; Expression democratic memory (old historical memory), 6 once; LGBTI and derivatives, 5.
Attention, how many times we meet the same words in the decree undergraduate: until 270 times load word respect and its derivatives; variety increases to 164; Floor rises sharply up to 203; emotions and derivatives do this a little, at 113; liabilities and derivatives are experiencing a large increase, up to 140; equity and sustainability have similar numbers, 95 and 56 respectively; sex and derivatives, drops to 22; empathy and derivative calls up to 57 times; mood almost doubles, registering 55 once; stability, 20; justice, 19; the expression democratic memory is preserved 6 times, although collective memory (which is not in ESO) is mentioned 40 times; LGTBI and derivatives, 1.
the message is sinking
It is clear that certain issues are deliberately raised in the text, for example, the question gender perspectivewhich appears 17 times in ESO and 35 times in undergraduate. On the contrary, it minimizes others. “There is a lot of talk about being critical, but then words like merit or sacrifice does not come out never,” says Rubio. Subject “effort dosagedo not overdo it”, as well as the idea that “scientific progress is a product collective effort and rarely the result of the work of one person.
In the decision of the ECO “word spain comes 27 times, but almost always negative or ideological makeup,” Rubio explains. For example: “demographic challenge in Spain” or “Spain in the face of modernity.” complex and problematic aspects modern society and today’s Spain”.
In the Bachelor, the number of references rises to 89, but they usually follow the same lines, emphasizing the uniqueness of their territories or analyzing it from a more global point of view, within Europe. These are just a few examples, but it’s a pretty obvious reflection of what we’re talking about: ideologization of the education system.