The indoctrination never stops (Alberto Noguera's blog)

The Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia's regional government, has added ideological neutrality oversight to the duties of its school inspection service, with 20 new inspectors planned and a complaints mailbox that has yet to open. The law does not define what indoctrination is, and the PSOE has taken the matter to Spain's Constitutional Court.

A law was passed months ago that almost nobody talks about over a drink at the bar. On **31 July 2026**, the government of the Valencian Community, a coalition of **PP** and **VOX**, pushed through law 5/2026, a mixed text covering taxation, administrative management and financial management. The striking part is its article 155, which adds a new function to Decree 80/2017, the one listing the duties of the school inspection service. From now on, those inspectors must also safeguard ideological neutrality in schools.

The measure comes with two announcements. The first: appointing **20 new inspectors** dedicated specifically to that task. The second: setting up an anonymous complaints mailbox so that parents, students or teachers can report what they consider indoctrination. That mailbox, as of today, is not operational. The PSOE has filed an appeal before the **Constitutional Court**, and it remains to be seen what it says.

The underlying problem is that the law does not define what indoctrination is. Without that definition, it is also unclear what ideological neutrality means. And without specifics, the stated goal —preventing indoctrination in the classroom— amounts to empty talk. Regulatory development is needed to specify what can and cannot be done.

## How politics sneaks into a school without anyone noticing

Educational indoctrination does not work through rallies. It works through small, repeated gestures presented as common sense. One example: the school's public address system. One day a teacher's voice announces that the **31st** is the last day to register for the entrance exam for vocational training programmes. Institutional communication, no doubt. The next day, the same voice says: "Remember that today, at break time, we are going to gather at the school's main entrance to take a photo, with or without a T-shirt." The cause behind it is never mentioned. It does not need to be. The message has already landed: there is a cause with official backing, and anyone who does not take part is left out.

Using the public address system for non-academic purposes is indoctrination because all indoctrination rests on the principle of officialdom and groupthink. An idea presented as optional or debatable does not indoctrinate. An idea presented as the school's official position does.

The same goes for the songs played between classes. At **8:00**, **8:55**, **9:50**, **10:45**, **11:15**, **12:10**, **13:05**, **14:00**, **14:10**, **15:00**, music plays over the speakers. And that music has lyrics. Angry girls singing, a little group with a dulzaina and tabalet, protest songs. A mental washing machine running every fifty minutes. Any phone alarm melody would be more appropriate to mark the change of class.

## Action groups, posters and biased libraries

In many schools in the Valencian Community, so-called Feminist Action Groups have proliferated. They are announced over the official public address system, promoted with posters stuck on the walls, and operate as a political interest group using the school's resources. Their stated goal is raising awareness of sens and microsensmicro, based on an ideologised interpretation of human relationships. One student who joined one of these groups came away convinced of the great privileges he enjoyed for being a man. At the end of the school year he was removed from the school for turning 18 and being a foreign national, and was sent into a deregulated labour market without qualifications.

Posters are another front. The walls of corridors and classrooms are covered with posters about causes that, taken one by one, may have legitimacy. The problem is that together they form a single theme and crowd out other realities: addiction, insomnia, underachievement, depression, anxiety. In one classroom, a group of **4th-year ESO** students (the Spanish equivalent of the last years of compulsory secondary education) asked to set the Spanish flag as the desktop background. It was done. In the trinc days, some students commented that a teacher had complained about its political use. Soon after, the background had been removed and an administrator password was set to prevent changes. The same people who fill the walls with rainbow and purple posters cannot tolerate a Spanish flag in a public school.

Libraries are also used as a showcase. Entire shelves are devoted to specific themes, with the so-called Purple Point leading the way. Thousands of euros of public money are spent each year buying books, and that spending should be audited. There may be one copy of **El Conde Lucanor**; seven copies of **Teaching to Transgress** by **bell hooks** in the front row.

## Textbooks, tutoring sessions and town councils jumping in

The Valencian textbook system, **Xarxa Llibres**, works through students exchanging books each school year. It assumes that all teachers use textbooks even in Bachillerato (the Spanish equivalent of sixth form or high school), and do not create their own materials. And this year schools have been banned from charging for photocopies, with a very limited school budget. In practice, the textbook is mandatory. In a Castilian Language manual for **1st-year Bachillerato** published by **McGraw Hill**, an ideologically charged poster appears in the explanation of the communication scheme and the functions of language. The texts, moreover, come pre-filtered with the same bias. Those who write them probably do not even believe what they put in them: they have found that academic departments choose that book first if it includes those posters.

Tutoring periods used to be the time for students' individual problems. Now they are used for content of dubious neutrality. The school's counselling department, the management and the town councils try to get a foot in. In **Calpe**, a counsellor went two years without greeting a teacher because he refused to hand out photocopies with doctrine on the gender violence law during his tutoring period. The town council of **Dénia**, governed by **PSOE** and **Compromís**, brings activities into the school: a "Lorca play" that turns out to be the Sonnets of Dark Love staged as theatre, compulsory reading of **El infierno de Marta**, and a show titled "The Benefits of Equality" for **3rd-year ESO** students. Education is a regional competence, and the regional government is PP and VOX. There is no need to touch academic freedom: an order banning town councils from interfering in secondary schools would be enough.

## What can and cannot be done

The effect of indoctrination is not that a party wins. It is unemployment, failure, resentment and low self-esteem among the young people who fall for ideologies that distort reality and feed on antiestéticar and guilt. When some of them realise that the only people around them with a villa and a nice car are the ones who married whoever bought them that villa and that car, they are already forty.

There are concrete measures that an ideological neutrality law could include. Banning posters on the walls. Centralising book purchases for libraries in the regional education ministry (Conselleria). Making the between-class music **Beethoven** or **David Guetta**. Restricting the public address system to academic matters. Banning people from coming to school with campaign T-shirts. Asking teachers to refrain from bracelets or other physical displays of ideological positions. Having Xarxa Llibres books pass through the Conselleria first. Banning town councils from organising activities in schools. Shelving library books by subject and alphabetically by the author's surname. And treating feminism and the rainbow as gender ideology, and therefore non-neutral political content.

All of this touches rights and competences, and any law restricting freedoms must have a legal and jurisprudential basis. The appeal before the Constitutional Court is pending, and it is worth remembering that none of these measures is free from legal debate.