Link: María Acaso

In an article of el Diario, María Acaso, who is a visual education teacher, denounces the decision of the government of putting visual education as an optative subject in Primary education, that they established in the educational law, LOMCE. 

Acaso claims that this decision is completely political; people who were in the power then, PP, were not interested in educating children to think and have critical thinking, but they preferred people who would follow orders without reflecting on them. And this is exactly what they were doing by taking visual education off of the curriculum; as children are not being educated on analysing, interpreting and understanding visual representations, they will grow up unable to see the messages behind what they see. 

This professor highlights that we live in a hypervisual world so it is extremely incongruous to make children uneducated in visual arts. Another thing she mentions multiple times is the fact that normally, there is an automatic relation made between visual arts education and crafts but in reality, this subject helps children develop creativity, autonomy and critical thinking. 

I completely agree with what María Acaso says in this article. We usually believe visual arts education to be a subject much less important than maths and languages, for example, since it is a subject that is not evaluated in official exams. However, we should be much more aware of the benefits that this subject brings, such as the development of the critical thinking, which is vital for children to have in order to be able to be participative and competent members of society in the future.