A new school year has begun in the Valencian Community and teachers return to classrooms with a mix of usual duties and new concerns. The article sarcastically describes tasks that are already part of daily teaching: planning, evaluating, meeting families, filling out forms, and trying to get thirty teenagers to take their eyes off their phones.
The piece suggests that now teachers will also have to watch so that no subversive ideology escapes between the blackboard and the bell. The article's title, "Tornar a les aules dels anys quaranta" (Return to the classrooms of the forties), evokes a comparison with more authoritarian eras.
The text involves Valencian teachers who face these new demands at the start of the school year. The reference to the forties indicates a critique of a regression in terms of freedom of expression and ideological control in education.
The article presents itself as an ironic reflection on the current situation of education in the region, questioning the additional pressures that fall on the teaching body beyond their traditional pedagogical functions.
