The Ley Wert was unpopular for a number of reasons. It aimed to take power from parent-teacher governance boards and give it to political figures. It introduced streaming for academic and vocational training a year earlier than before, reducing standard schooling for anyone going into vocational training. And it threatened the linguistic immersion system in Catalonia, a system proved to work, in order to downgrade the relevance of Catalan in schools.
From the government’s point of view, shelving unpopular reforms after massive strikes and protests may be a mistake. They may be trying to make themselves look flexible.
From my point of view, what they’ve shown us is that we can win.
It’s not dead yet, and I agree with a lot of what’s in it – refocusing from jobs for bad teachers to jobs for school leavers – , but always assumed that Wert had been put on the job because he would firm up an important proportion of the PP vote but act in such a completely ridiculous fashion that the government would be able to abandon him, thus keeping CiU and a section of potential PSOE vote onside.
As a dodo, I reckon. Maybe you’re right though. Maybe it never had a chance.
LD says that the holdup is Wert’s mad and unconstitutional idea of avoiding confrontation with CiU by sending children who want to use Spanish to private schools in parts of Spain where’s it’s legal to use Spanish and making the regional govt pay:
If they really backed down to a couple of thousand students trying to get onto IU’s candidate list for the locals the Jewish-masonic conspiracy would never forgive them.
Seems you may have been right. I take it all back. Well, this post anyway.