Public Ministry investigates case of citizenship classes



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Next week, 14-year-old Rafael begins his ninth grade and 12-year-old Tiago, seventh. But despite the guaranteed integration of the siblings, this school year, in groups of the Camilo Castelo Branco Group, in Famalicão, the return of the two minors to school is stopped by several unstable judicial lines and a provisional enrollment. Parents’ conscientious objection to the frequency of their children in the Citizenship and Development course made them fail for unexcused absences in two consecutive school years (2018-2019 and 2019-2020) and their administrative passage by decision of the councils of class – they are both excellent students to the other subjects – was considered irregular by the guardianship, since it violates the duty of attendance enshrined in the Student Statute (EA).

The guardianship recognized, however, that the two students could thus be “harmed by the consequences of an action that, as minors, was imposed on them.” As an alternative, she proposed compliance with a discipline recovery plan, which implied doing some work. If met, students could pass the year. But the family rejected the proposal. And the boys have not yet withdrawn two years of schooling because one of the two precautionary measures, brought by the family, was admitted by the Justice and suspended the process until the final decision of the main action that takes place in the Administrative Court of Braga, and that it can take several. years, from the first instance to the last constitutional appeal.

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