{"id":26662,"date":"2025-04-02T09:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/?p=26662"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:36:00","slug":"state-education-and-bananafication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/en\/state-education-and-bananafication\/","title":{"rendered":"State Education and &#8216;Bananafication&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>State Education and &#8216;Bananafication&#8217;<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26668\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26668\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/colegio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/colegio.jpg 900w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/colegio-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/colegio-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/colegio-495x330.jpg 495w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/colegio-270x180.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image created using AI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license noopener noreferrer\">License Creative Commons <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nc.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nd.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8678\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Xavier-150x150.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 70px) 100vw, 70px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Xavier-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Xavier-100x100.jpg 100w\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XmaSecundaria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Xavier Mass\u00f3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the earliest days of the <strong>LOGSE<\/strong>\u00b9, it was painfully obvious: while state schools were being stripped of any semblance of academic structure and force-fed every variety of pedagogical nonsense, with private schools\u2014whether state-funded or not\u2014 a complete and shameless blind eye was turned. The contrast was stark: excessive scrutiny in one case and an unashamed laissez-faire attitude in the other, courtesy of an inspection service that had transformed itself into a <strong>militant pedagogical police force<\/strong>. And let\u2019s be clear: this wasn\u2019t mere favouritism towards state-funded private schools but, above all, an overt and explicit policy of disfavouring state schools. It was imperative to dismantle and dismember them.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, administrative reforms turned school leadership into a <strong>political commissariat<\/strong>, where the perks of the job\u2014and any potential for career advancement\u2014depended on blind obedience to official directives. In practice, ideological loyalty became the sole criterion for appointing key personnel, turning school leadership into a transmission belt for political mandates thanks to the <strong>LEC\u00b2 and various \u2018autonomy\u2019 decrees on school leadership and recruitment<\/strong>\u2014resulting in the de facto defunctionalisation of the public teaching profession in Catalonia. The same principle applied to school leadership and educational projects: as long as they toed the official line, anything went. To be fair, there have been\u2014and still are\u2014honourable exceptions, and due credit should be given. But when civil servants surrender their ideological independence to political power, the inevitable result is an administration packed with sycophants and second-rate mediocrities, each more desperate than the last to ingratiate themselves with their superiors.<\/p>\n<p>A different approach could have been the consolidation and improvement of the previous model, where heads were elected by the teaching staff and ratified by the school council, acting as managers and administrators, leaving academic matters in the hands of subject departments and curricular experts. Alternatively, a professionalised model could have been adopted, creating a new body of civil servant headteachers with functions identical to those of the previous system, much like the French model. Obviously, none of that happened. Instead, the well-worn system of political watchdogs and obedient overseers was cemented, propped up by the much-vaunted and utterly ridiculous notion of \u2018<strong>pedagogical leadership<\/strong>.\u2019 The same logic was applied to school inspection: not only was subject-specialist inspection scrapped and primary and secondary inspections merged\u2014an unmistakable statement of intent\u2014but competitive examinations for inspectors were conveniently abolished. Positions were handed out arbitrarily to the \u2018chosen ones\u2019\u2014those with the right political credentials\u2014under the euphemistic label of <em>comisi\u00f3n de servicio<\/em> (temporary secondment). Then, after more than two decades of blatant nepotism, the authorities were finally forced\u2014against their will and by court ruling\u2014to hold competitive exams (thanks to<strong> legal action by ASPEPC\u00b7SPS<\/strong>\u00b3). And what was the principal \u2018merit\u2019 considered? The number of years spent as an acting inspector, of course. Not even Juan Palomo, the <em>I cook it, I eat it<\/em> archetype, could have scripted it better. And as for the everyday teachers? Don\u2019t even get me started.<\/p>\n<p>This restructuring of school leadership produced a rather paradoxical outcome. By turning state-school headteachers into mere administrative enforcers\u2014entirely dependent on the very administration they serve\u2014the system made them far more subservient than their private-school counterparts. The latter, not being civil servants, are answerable only to those who hired them: the school\u2019s owners. This creates a labour relationship model that may align with the logic of private enterprise but is fundamentally incompatible with the very nature of public administration. When applied to the public sector, it inevitably degenerates into <strong>clientelism<\/strong>, dragging along its usual entourage of nepotism, simony, undue privileges, and sinecures. In other words, this is what happens when the administration embarks on what we might call its own <em>bananafication<\/em>\u2074.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, many state-funded private schools have eagerly jumped on the bandwagon of extravagant pedagogical experiments\u2014total scams, every last one of them\u2014and there\u2019s no doubt more to come. But the real issue is this: to push dodgy tech gadgets and half-baked teaching methods, <strong>education first has to be turned into a business<\/strong>. And for that to happen, the state education system had to be neutralised\u2014because for all its flaws, it was still doing what it was supposed to do: teaching.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth remembering that not too long ago, state schools held more prestige than private ones. They provided a better education, staffed by university-trained specialists in their respective fields. Then came LOGSE and its successive mutations, and that was the end of that. The problem had to be artificially created to justify the monetised solution\u2014fraudulent or not, as long as it turned a profit. And, of course, none of this could happen if students were still managing to add up without computers or educational apps. First came the<strong> pedagogy of entertainment<\/strong>, followed by the great leap to digital screens. Only once real learning had been thoroughly dismantled\u2014once actual teaching had been abandoned\u2014could the miraculous new solution be unveiled. And if students still failed to learn anything? No problem at all. That was part of the plan. The beauty of the model lies in its endless cycle of failure. New, inevitably doomed solutions will keep rolling in\u2014segmentation, consumer product renewal, planned obsolescence. It\u2019s simply market logic applied to education.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s particularly striking is how many of those who once made a tidy profit dressing the emperor in imaginary new clothes\u2014actively shaping the very educational model we now endure\u2014are suddenly shocked and outraged by the closure of state school classes while new ones keep opening in the state-funded private sector. I share their outrage, though for entirely different reasons: we\u2019ve been dealing with this for decades, and it never took a genius to see it coming. Many just swallowed the paper moon that the finger pointed to, without noticing that the finger itself was revealing its intentions. Even in the case of some of today&#8217;s mourners, the pointing finger was theirs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, it\u2019s baffling to witness such surprise from those who\u2019ve spent over three decades swallowing something hook, line and sinker\u2014or cashing in on its manufacture. I\u2019m not sure what they\u2019re so outraged about, unless it\u2019s their own gullibility. It all feels a bit too much like <em>round up the usual suspects<\/em>, as Captain Renault put it in <em>Casablanca<\/em>\u2014except, of course, that these usual suspects already have their next commissions lined up. Their credibility is shot; they\u2019ll have to peddle their indignation elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be clear: additional resources are always welcome, but the fundamental problem with our state education system isn\u2019t just a lack of funding\u2014it\u2019s how that funding is allocated, and more importantly, the principles underpinning it. As long as we remain trapped in the logic of the market, with <strong>pedagogy playing<\/strong> the role of its obedient lackey, there\u2019s no way out. As I said, the real issue with our education system is one of concept\u2014 and a government with a taste for bananas.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> The last Spanish education law<\/p>\n<p><sup>2 <\/sup>Catalan education law<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup> Secondary school teachers&#8217; union<\/p>\n<p><sup>4 <\/sup>i.e., the processes of corruption and inefficiency typical of a \u2018banana republic\u2019<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<strong>educational EVIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rights:\u00a0<strong>Creative Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the earliest days of the LOGSE\u00b9, it was painfully obvious: while state schools were being stripped of any semblance of academic structure and force-fed every variety of pedagogical nonsense, with private schools\u2014whether state-funded or not\u2014 a complete and shameless blind eye was 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