Reviewing a New Educational Law and summarizing its main ten concepts wasn’t easy at all. Due to it’s an important domain for us, since it guides our intellectual future, we wanted to put all our effort in this task and we took it really seriously.
We have learned how to reach an agreement among our different opinions and points of view, as we didn’t support all the electoral promises on the Decalogue and either it was difficult to reach to a consensus between us. If it was hard for us, seven people, we couldn’t imagine how stressful and difficult is trying to content more than forty millions of people which is a whole country.
Moreover, to decide the main points of our educational law is not something that citizens are used to, specially us, that have just been allowed to vote. Normally, although there are many demonstrations or suggestions about education, health service… those specific aspects are decided by the Governments and sometimes used as a tool in their electoral program to get their main goal: to convince people that they have the best reforms and to be the most voted ones.
I can relate this with an experience that I had last year, when various political representatives of different parties attended my school to make a public debate in front of the students of the last year. When we asked them why any of the parties suggested a votation to decide if the LOMCE had to be implanted or not (as it was a law that affects us more than the politicians who proposed it), the most “conservative” one explicitly said that “education laws were an excuse to content the voters and that’s why they didn’t ask for our opinion, as they didn’t really care”.
This makes us think that, sometimes, complaining to the “bosses” of the state with Educational laws is unuseful, as it doesn’t seem like we are going to be heard, but reading this decalogue, we have learned that education is so important for the current and future society that we don’t have to give up. Instead of that, we have to fight to reach what we want and to make them hear us. That’s why, putting all your effort on developing an Educational Law with so many interesting and necessary points like “#PorOtraPolíticaEducativa” has, we can try to make all the changes that we want and to be heard by thousands of people until we get to the Government.
To sum up, I think that another thing we learned in this task is how difficult is to complement each other so everyone of us does the same amount of job. For example, when we were doing the pictures for the stop motion, we only needed two people doing the main job, while the others had nothing to do at that moment. For that, we have learned to organise ourselves, and rotate the main roles so none of us is not doing anything, but that’s definitely really difficult: it was necessary to know in which domains each of us highlight, to focus on them and try to do your best in that aspect that is easier for you. This means that, in this task, we get to know ourselves a little better, discovering new abilities that we didn’t know at all.
