- Some will say it’s not “ours.” Many others will argue that private centres provide a public service and that it is not right to use the word privatisation. It will also be those who take in hand Article 27 of the Spanish Constitution and justify the defence of their exclusionary project.
It will also be those who reject the privatisation process in general. We have also heard, in the name of efficiency, that the financing of private centres is a valuable model of economic savings. The nuances, from a selfish and individual point of view, are based on the common objective and question the legitimacy of the public school to justify the private educational model.
The key is in the first cycle of Early Childhood Education, in access to the educational system. This is the biggest fraud in the public administration, which generates social division and is an educational stage at the highest levels of privatization. But it’s not the only key…
And they're happy because the decision to bet on the private education of the PNV, which will accompany them, is firm. Two initiatives will be adopted in Parliament in the coming months to this end: The law on cooperatives and the law on education. You know it's costing us to maintain two parallel, public and private systems. Although they know that the results are not as expected and are aware of the seriousness of the situations of segregation and exclusion. However, they have decided that the increased and segregated system are tolls that have to be paid to defend their educational model. And there, the concerted network is comfortable, with policies of clientelism.
The key is in the first cycle of Early Childhood Education, in access to the educational system. This is the biggest fraud in the public administration, which generates social division and is an educational stage at the highest levels of privatization. But it is not the only key… The Department of Education, led by Cristina Uriarte, continues to give covenants to the centers of the private network in all stages and authorizing the classrooms despite the availability of places in the public network. In other words, it continues to privatise. In addition, if you have to break the law or if you have to turn a blind eye to violations of the law, you will.
The most worrying aspect of all this is the silence, the complicity, of a large section of the left. With all of them, the public school has a miserable future. The only hope lies in the popular movement, in the hands of families, students and education workers. Let us therefore start from town to town and from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, in favour of the Basque public school and against privatisation! Because we are proud of the public!
Article signatories:
Aitor Idigoras Lasaga
Ana Pérez Pérez