Valencia region parents called to vote on their children's classroom language
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 @ 1:06 PM
PARENTS in the Valencia region have been asked to vote in an online public opinion poll to find out which language they would prefer their children to be taught in.
The regional government, or Generalitat plans to launch a new multi-lingual curriculum which will allow pupils to leave school with a reasonable working knowledge of English, and fluency and accuracy in both Spanish and the regional tongue, valenciano.
Two programmes have been proposed – one where the main lingua franca of the classroom is valenciano, and another where Castilian Spanish, or castellano is the main teaching language.
Anyone whose child goes to a State school in the region is invited to take part in the poll on Friday, December 19 via the website https://opina.edu.gva.es.
They will need a password and username to do so, which they can obtain from their children's school before Friday.
Where a child lives with his or her mother and father at the same main residential address, each parent can vote separately.
Which main teaching language should be used in schools is an issue that has long divided parents in the three provinces of Valencia, Castellón and Alicante, with some preferring their children to be taught in valenciano as it is the language they speak at home and will allow them to compete for civil service jobs in adulthood, whereas others prefer their kids to be educated in castellano so they are not limited to living in the same region when they reach university or working age.
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