-The school has the obligation to offer Religion as a subject to free choose
-Students should repeat the course if they fail 2 or more subjects
-A new subject: "Educación para la Ciudadanía" (Education for citizenship)
This subject create a lot of problems in the conservative side of the spanish society.
They said that the Estate is stoling the moral education of the children from theis parents, who should decide about the education of their children. But the goverment tried to explain that the subject will be use to educate in democratic values and tolerance.
The Catholic church is totally against the subject, calling it totalitarian,and critizing points refers to sexual education, teaching about monoparental or homosexual families and state indoctrination.
Also some sectors of the anarquism said that it doesnt teach others ways of social organization, inducing the system of parliamentary democracy.
After the goverment said that the subject will be as obligatory in schools, some parents appealed to higher courts of the autonomous communities, with mixed results:
The mayority of tribunals decide to go on with the project of subject, but in some of the communities the subjects is offers as free choose, but not bligatory.
I dont know how political and religious ideal can affects the education of a "democratic" country. Parents says that they have the right to choose about their children education, but then, they leave all the responsabilities n the school, and overall, in the teachers.
From 2009, Education for Citizenship and Human Rights is teached in spanish schools supporting:
For the next entries, i will talk about how Primary is stablished (degrees and grades), problems and what to do after Secondary, and the newest change in the University System.
the development of free people and people of integrity, through the consolidation of self-esteem, personal dignity, freedom and responsibility and the formation of future citizens with their own criteria, respectful, participatory and supportive, with knowledge of their rights, assume their civic duties and develop behavior that allow them practice citizenship effectivelyand responsibly