20,348 signatures have been submitted by the Council in favour of the generalised model of Basque education
- The signatures have been presented by the Basque Council in the Gasteiz Parliament. Among the signatories are also the Federation of Ikastolas of the Basque Country, the educational agents EHIGE, HEIZE and Hik Hasi, the unions STEILAS, LAB and ELA, and several parents, workers, students and teachers.
The Council has asked the Gasteiz parliamentarians that the new Education Act should generalize the teaching model in Basque. Council Secretary-General Idurre Eskisabel has extended the proposal to Parliament, with the support of several citizens. Isabel indicates that the number of signatures is proof of “great protection” of the proposal.
Inclusiveness in the center
Eskisabel has argued that the new Education Law must overcome the “obsolete models that generate linguistic segregation” and implement an “inclusive model centered on the Basque language”: “Euskera, its own language, will be a standard vehicle language in the educational system and language of normal and general use in the activities, and will be a general and inclusive linguistic model and will not distribute to the students based on the choice among the official languages”.
He stressed that the sponsors of the proposal had drawn attention to “the amendments to make the language models currently in force expressly included in the preamble to the law and to establish the facilitation character of the three languages”. In Eskisabel’s words, this model denies the achievement of “sufficient knowledge of the Basque Country” and represents a “major obstacle” to the universalization of knowledge of the Basque Country.
“In short, that the Education Act is a guarantee of the right of all students to acquire Euskera, and that, by betting on social justice and social cohesion, it gives Euskera to those who have the least,” he claimed.
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