- The closing of last year increased the linguistic gap between students and impaired the knowledge and use of Euskera by some students. Council Secretary General Paul Bilbao said that, with the new course on top, "the attention to the Basque issue is slowly being listened to."
At a time when the roadmaps for the new school year are being defined, the concern is greater among members of the Council. Bilbao has recalled that in the lockdown “tens of thousands of children and adolescents have had no link with the Basque Country for almost half a year.” He has therefore called on the institutions and other actors to put the Basque issue at the centre of education.
According to the communiqué issued by the Council last June, the Basque people "must take the centre if they want to make a commitment to a new future based on equality, democracy, cohesion and the guarantee of rights". Also in education, in order not to leave behind any student in terms of linguistic competence, “it is essential that language be the axis of this new schooling”.
Concrete measures
Concrete measures have been proposed such as the assessment of the competencies at the beginning of the course in order to take corrective measures, strengthen the linguistic reinforcements (HIPI), expand personal and material resources, adapt the ratios of students, set in motion the reinforcements to work orality from the first day and set in motion programs that aim to link the students' emotions with the use of the Basque language.