« A language is well worth a cathedral
(Una lenga val ben una catedrala) »
- Joan Bodon (Occitan writer)
The
French minister of national education, J-M Blanquer, and the rectorat
(school district) of Toulouse have decided to destroy the teaching of
Occitan:
At
the national state level, all incentives to choose Occitan for the
French baccalaureate are suppressed and Occitan is prevented from having
the same status as Latin-Greek.
At
the school district level, all the financial means previously granted
to schools for Occitan are axed. Due to a lack of sufficient financing
very few courses of Occitan will survive.
The
decisions made by the French State are at odds with many commitments
made to local authorities. France puts itself in an illegal situation by
flouting the code of education and even the constitution of the
republic.
Occitan
is one of the fundamental features of the identity of Occitan regions
(Occitanie, Provence, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Nouvelle Aquitaine).
To
have a good knowledge and understanding of our territories, the
millenary language and culture they convey cannot be sidestepped.
Forgetting Occitan is not a sign of modernity but a loss of substance.
For
more than 40 years, the doors of the schools in the Toulouse district
have progressively opened to accept the teaching of Occitan in a
remarkably consistent manner.
Further to this brutal backtrack, the Partit de la Nacion Occitana, Lo Clusèl, the Centre Régional des Enseignants d'Occitan de Toulouse (CREO), FELCO, IEO, Calandretas, Convergéncia occitana
and other Occitan organisations call on all those who are attached as
they are to the respect of linguistic and cultural diversity in our
territories, who support a voluntary and ambitious policy for Occitan
and its full development within schools, to demonstrate:
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