The word youth comes from Latin to be youngmeaning that young people, and grow upmeaning growth, growth. It is a time of transition between childhood and adulthood that is free from family conflicts, between friends or with yourself. At the academic level, it looks good and changes from school to school. According to teachers, 1st and 2nd years of ESO tend to be the most difficult courses. To avoid serious problems, The Community of Madrid has given a solution: do not teach these subjects in schools.
In particular, last Tuesday, the Minister of Education, Emilio Viciana, advanced the goal of making the transition from school to school at the age of 14 from next year. Delaying their arrival in places where they meet other young adults, in their opinion, is the way to “protect” these young children.
“We hope this will help us overcome this problem drop out of schoolto improve the work of the students, their rest or their food, and to fight against loneliness, bad habits or the influence of gangs, “said the adviser, after saying that the measure announced by the president of the people, Isabel Díaz. Ayuso, has been “well received” by the families and that there are “studies in support of this decision”, which they believe will benefit the students.
But Enrique Castillejo, The President of the General Council of Official Colleges of Pedagogues and Psychopedagogues of Spain, opposes this. “In In Spain there is no educationwhich has recently been published by a group of scientists, which examines the prevalence of inappropriate behavior by grade and type of school.” This means that no one has done any work to show that young children will be more protected in primary schools than in secondary schools.
Yes, there is more, continues Castillejo. Like the fact that youth violence has increased by five in recent years, especially in areas such as the Valencian Community, or that people consume more tobacco, alcohol and drugs and young people. “It’s clear that we have serious problems living together in the learning environment,” but the president of the teachers says that this is more “technical freedom” than old age.
“Sometimes a good working idea – like thinking that little children will be protected in this way – is still a good working idea. From there, everything that comes after, I’m afraid, is a lot of beliefs and ideas , even if the technical methods and very little science,” he adds.
Return to General Education Law
Moving to another country at the age of 14 is not unusual. The General Education Law of 1970the last of the educational culture of Franco’s dictatorship, he considered compulsory education until the age of 14, taking the EGB, which took eight courses. There you can find BUP.
But Jordi Peralesassociate professor of Psychology and Education at UOC, remembers that his father, who was one of the teachers working at the time, explained that the difficult time was not a change in the middle, but in development. That is, in the 7th year of EGB and in the 1st year of ESO it is the entry of LOGS in 1990.
He, who has worked in almost all levels of education, from kindergarten to university, agrees. Castillejo, as a former student of EGB, also remembers that in those last courses, regardless of how they were taught and the small lessons, innocence was no longer there.
This is why Perales believes that the idea of a government in Madrid will continue historical revisionism: See that it is an economic matter. “Currently, the number of people who are of primary school age has decreased significantly due to the decrease in the number of children born, they are closing classrooms due to the lack of students, so what they are doing is hiding this: because there will be more in primary school. schools, and they don’t want to make a lot of money in building schools, they plan to transfer the first two years of this to the school,” he explains.
Today, he adds, there is a shortage of secondary schools. In which numbers are high, there are many lines and Vocational Education courses. There is a lack of space and, in his opinion, delaying the arrival of students is one way to achieve it.
If it had been a conservation effort, he adds, nursery schools would have been rebuilt so that little boys and girls would not be compared to middle-aged children.
In addition, the fact that private colleges and universities have all the courses, without anyone complaining, also makes him question: Are public schools the only ones with risks? Therefore, for the associate professor of Psychology and Education at the UOC, everything comes from one explanation: “the lack of money that has been made in public schools” and has caused “isolation,” especially “in people like Madrid. ” You just need, he adds, to look at some (private places) and others (schools).
