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The controversy surrounding the discipline of Education for citizenship and development was one of the topics under analysis in the Jornal das 8 this Monday, with Pedro Pinto and Miguel Sousa Tavares questioning the former Minister of Education David Justino, who is one of the subscribers of the manifest against the mandatory nature of these classes.
This controversy, it should be remembered, originated in the case of two brothers from Vila Nova de Famalicão, in the district of Braga, who missed all classes in this discipline at the option of their parents, who argue that the topics discussed are an educational responsibility of families. .
In this discipline, created in 2018/19, and mandatory in the 2nd and 3rd cycle of Basic Education, subjects such as health and sexuality education, volunteering, gender equality or road safety are taught.
Miguel Sousa Tavares considered in this regard that “most parents feel pain about what happens in schools”, either due to lack of interest or lack of time.
If it is not the school that teaches students basic things, such as not to spit on the ground, that you cannot sexually abuse a classmate, that racism is a disease that must be treated, (…) they are in the hands of the pirates of social networks, who are the ones who educate them. Why be afraid of this? “I ask.
And he even considered that, today, sex education, for example, “it’s a basic thing”.
We talk about sex education as if we were an Islamic country or as if we were from the 18th century. My God, these days this is a basic thing, it’s like teaching to brush your teeth, it’s perfectly common. To think that this is indecency … “
