The President of the Balearics, Jose Ramon Bauza, may have replaced his Minister for Education yesterday but will it be enough to break the stand off over his trilingual teaching method?
Palma.—Yesterday morning, it was announced that the Minister for Education, Joana Maria Camps, whose predecessor drew up the highly controversial TIL trilingual teaching method, was to be replaced by the government spokesperson and Minister for Public Administration, Nuria Riera.
She, in turn will be replaced by Juan Manuel La fuente Mir and both were sworn in last night.
In the meantime, secondary school principals have asked the government for a written report on what it intends to do next with regards to the implementation of TIL and has threatened taking legal action should the government have tried to have introduced TIL illegally.
On the other hand, teachers agreed on Thursday night that, in view of the Balearic High Court having ruled TIL to be “invalid” and to be “suspended”, they will not take any industrial action but they will ignore TIL and either go back to their previous teaching methods or devise new ways, which better suit them and the students, of teaching English, Catalan and Castilian in schools.
But, they may be running before they can walk.