Starting from the next course, all public and concerted centres of Early Childhood and Primary Education will be automatically applied the starting activity, and the centre wishing for continuous or flexible activity will have to vote: 25% of the School Council votes for change, then the Department of Education approves and 3/5 of the families support change.

The decisions have turned into dust, as in recent years most of the Early Childhood and Primary Education centers had made a transition from division to continuum. 85% of public schools opt for continued activity and, taking into account public and concerted schools, 71% of schools have opted for continuous activity. Now, those who want to maintain this activity will have to retake the process. That is what the draft Foral Order says.

"Over fifteen years, after 145 schools have made a process and effort to change their schedule, now we all want to return to the time quotient, respect the choice of the school community." With these words, they have called concentrations for this Thursday at 17:30 in Pamplona and Tudela opposite the building of the Government of Navarra. They complain, on the one hand, that they consider the voting process too hard; among other things, "the opinion of teachers is not decisive, it will be merely consultative" and "it does not seem fair to tell the families that they do not vote as negative votes not to change the day". On the other hand, the requirements to be met by centres that want continued activity "have been tightened by the government, forcing them to work more with the same resources". In fact, the afternoon session goes from not teaching to continuous teaching.

For and against

School hours have been the subject of debate in recent years. Those who see it as detrimental to continuing work tend to argue that it is too many hours in a row, that it means eating too late, that it harms the most disadvantaged families from the point of view of conciliation and that it loses the status of meeting point of the school yard in the evenings. On the other hand, supporters of the continuous working day emphasize that afternoon and family hours are a way to recover, that the absenteeism of the students decreases and that most of the centers that make the change value it positively.

On the eve of the enactment of the Foral Order, the School Council of Navarra organized a conference on the subject: "Continuous or fragmented school activity is a false debate."