There is a new “negationism” which worries the Sumar political party: the “linguistic denial” this in certain autonomous communities promoted by the Popular Party and Vox. It is for this reason that, in a non-legal proposal to which ABC had access, they urge the government … recognize the teaching specialty ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) teacher of Aragonese and Asturian. In June, Sumar had already proposed that these two languages be studied at the Official Language School.
The political formation led by Yolanda Díaz, in collaboration with the Chunta Aragonesista, proposes to modify the royal decrees of specialties in order to recognize, in a generic way, the educational specialty of the autonomous communities with their own language which, without having an official character, have legal protection and express their desire to develop it.
In the explanatory memorandum of the non-law proposal, both parties argue that, although languages included in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and which still lack co-official status in their respective communities, such as Aragonese and Asturian, are not included in the royal decrees of specialties of the teaching corps and the bodies of teachers and secondary school teachers.
The fact that teachers of both languages are not included in the general secondary list, they say, prevents places from being taken up by other specialtiesgiving rise to weekly schedules of only six hours, incompatible with a decent living for the teachers concerned and with the consolidation of their own teaching force.
In the Aragonese case, they point out that this precariousness is further aggravated by “a context marked by the policy of linguistic denial” promoted by the current government of Aragon, led by the PP with the support of VOX.
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