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Plan to stop teaching Spanish to kids rejected
posted on: Dec 1 2010 12:26 by The Reporter. Viewed 857 times.
Members of the Dominican Academy of Language have rejected a proposal from the Ministry of Education proposing what they called the' exclusion of formal teaching of Spanish to students from first grade to fourth grade.
They said Dominicans have the right to be formerly taught Spanish from an early age.
"We have consulted the curricula of the Continent, and in no country in Latin America is there is a curriculum in which children are deprived of formal education in their mother tongue, because this would limit the possibilities and the development of thought, agreed scholars Manuel Nuñez and Andrés L. Mateo.
In an official statement delivered in a meeting yesterday at the Dominican Academy of Language, Nuñez and Mateo noted that the proposal was in violation of the Constitution. Article 29 says that the "official language of the Dominican Republic is Spanish," and that requires the State to promote education of their language and culture for all Dominicans.
They also said that the proposal is in violation of rules established by the Basic Education Curriculum Design, which includes the Spanish language as an essential course of seven hours per week until grade five and five and six hours in the next grades.
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