Why do nine in 10 teachers want to scrap the LOMCE? Overview of education reform as Spain goes back to school
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 @ 11:14 PM
SPAIN is heading back to school and the usual high costs to parents have now increased because of having to buy new textbooks adapted to the PP's controversial education reform law, the LOMCE, which nine in 10 teachers are against.
Fundamentally, they accuse the former schools minister José Ignacio Wert of attempting to filter out the less-able students at the age of 14 or 15 by sending them down a 'factory-fodder' path in a two-tier system reminiscent of the old secondary modern-versus-grammar school set-up which was disbanded in the UK in around 1970.
Teenagers who have completed the first half of high school, from age 12 to nearly 15 will then have to choose whether to take 'academic' subjects leading them to their ESO, or Spain's answer to GCSEs, or 'practical' sujects, meaning they will leave school without their ESO but with the FP Básico, enabling them to study FP courses (Formación Profesional), the equivalent of a BTEC.
Read more at thinkSPAIN.com