“Language should never have been judicialized and politicized like this,” she said. Rosa Maria Villaró, of the labor union CC OO, lamented that things have reached this point. The issue of language at school is a politically sensitive one that parties on the left and the right have sparred over for decades. Under the system, the Catalan language is generally considered the “vehicular language,” or primary language of instruction, for all subject matter except the Spanish language class and foreign language classes. The Catalan linguistic immersion program has been in place since 1983 despite several adverse rulings over the years by both the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. This latest move puts Spain’s central government in a delicate position, as the minority coalition led by Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist Party (PSOE) has frequently required support from Catalan separatist parties to get key legislation passed inside Spanish parliament, such as the budget. The Spanish Education Ministry said it would not comment on the decision before its legal services had analyzed it, the news agency Europa Press reported. The move comes after the Spanish Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the Catalan government against an earlier ruling by the Catalan High Court forcing schools in the region to teach at least 25% of hours of education in the Spanish language. “We want you to keep working exactly the same way you have until now,” said the letter sent on Wednesday by Catalan education chief Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray. The Spanish schools dropping out of bilingual education programs: ‘It’s a sham’
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