In the opinion of the Associació Professional de Docents d’Eivissa (APDE), the Balearic Ministry of Education does not take the sector’s professionals into account. It did not count on them “for the drafting of the Llei d’Educació de Balears“, which the Parliament approved in February, nor now, “to draft the new curricula of Infant and Primary Education, a procedure that follows the approval of the new state education law, the Lomloe“. These signs of “contempt” on the part of Education led the APDE to issue a statement yesterday in which they made their displeasure clear. As explained by its president, Joan Amorós, the Ministry of Education “is drafting the curricula, which are the minimum education requirements for the children of the Balearic Islands in each of the educational stages, with only “a small group of teachers who have not been chosen through a public and transparent process”. In order to design this set of criteria, methodologies and curricula that mark the objectives of school education, the government “has not asked the opinion of the school boards or their management teams”, criticised Amorós.
The association’s surprise and indignation at the Ministry of Education’s attitude grew when it received a copy of the document last Friday and was given five days to present amendments and objections. “Five days is a ridiculous period to be able to reflect and make our contributions,” said the APDE, after criticising the fact that the government wants to implement the new curricula next year. “In other countries around the world, this crucial process, which should be accompanied by training for the cloisters in the schools themselves, takes many months or even years,” said Amorós. “There is a lack of awareness for the teachers because we have not been the protagonists of this curricular change that we will have to apply in the classrooms in September,” he pointed out. The APDE president insisted that “changes as significant as those introduced by the Lomloe cannot be made with so little time when they don’t start from the ground up. The Regional Ministry should know that the culture of the school cannot be changed by decree, but that it takes time for reflection and collective work to achieve the improvement and transformation that is sought,” he stressed.
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