In Spain, VOX is bringing to the country’s congress a debate on the ideological impositions present in educational textbooks, El Debate reports.
The party, led by Santiago Abascal, has presented to the Education, Vocational Training and Sports commission a resolution to combat indoctrination in textbooks, citing specific examples from textbooks used in various parts of the country and levels of education. The VOX resolution states:
[P]ublic powers must ensure that Spaniards can enjoy free, demanding and quality education, that it be a true social elevator for young people and an element of national cohesion, and that it protects the freedom of parents to choose the education they prefer for their children.
It goes on to say:
Despite all this, and partly as a consequence of the transfer of powers in education to regional administrations, in recent years, situations have occurred in Spain in which public powers, at the national and regional levels, have designed educational policies that undermine the right of parents to freely choose their children’s education by approving clearly ideological educational content.
The party cites a growing “indoctrination” by the government in multiple topics
forcibly inclusive language that confuses students, manifestly false concepts, visions of reality that conform to the political agenda of the Left, affective-sexual education that clashes with the human and spiritual formation that parents want for their children.
Getting into specifics, it cites the Spanish history manual of secondary education in Castilla y León, which states that VOX is a “party with ultranationalist, xenophobic, authoritarian and populist discourse,” while characterizing the neo-communist party of Podemos Unidas as inspired by “the desire to regenerate the political life of the country, united with a new image and a new style speech.”
It also cites the 6th grade history book in Andalusia that states the Second Republic shared the “liberal ideology” of the Soviet Union. Furthermore, the proposal points out that “the Biology and Geology books of the 1st, 3rd and 4th of the ESO of the Community of Madrid, where the 2030 Agenda is openly advocated, admitted as a dogma of truth about which there is no room for discussion.”
The resolution calls for ideological neutrality, reminding lawmakers that
the obligation of educational administrations to offer and guarantee a quality educational system is incompatible with the ideological imposition developed through the approval of different laws that permeate the teaching with increasing frequency.
VOX proposes a review of textbooks by the Higher Educational Inspection Services and the removal of slanted curricula, as well as legislation to prohibit indoctrination in textbooks and guarantee the rights of parents to have their children receive the religious and moral education according to their convictions.
