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Nuno Melo and a group of CDS personalities, among others, launched a petition addressed to the government on Thursday to change the contents of the discipline of Citizenship, which is mandatory, or alternatively make it optional.
“What is disputed is not the idea of a discipline of Citizenship, which is useful, but the current content and its appropriation of the most radical left and the marginal associations of the school community that want to sociologically mold the students even politically ”, Says Nuno Melo to the DN.
Among the controversial issues addressed in the discipline, the MEP cites the “gender doctrine” and abortion. “There are issues on which, like these, the position of society is not just one and there is no space to present different positions,” he emphasizes. He insists that the State through the Equality Commission funds LGBT and feminist associations to provide training in these classes.
“There are issues on which, like these, that society’s position is not just one and there is no space to present several positions”
“They are entities outside the universe of teachers and school personnel and that seek a sociological and political conformation that interferes in the training process of students, without the parents being able to have any interference,” he argues.
Inevitably, the case that sparked the most recent controversy on the subject arises. That of the two Famalicão students who were rejected for not having attended Citizenship classes, at the option of their parents.
Nuno Melo emphasizes that “citizenship is very important, but the way discipline is configured is perverse and divides society.” With the request, he wants “the discipline to return to the essence of what is already stabilized in society” or, maintaining the same content, to make it optional.
“Citizenship is very important, but the way discipline is configured is perverse and divides society”
The petition was also signed, among others, by the parliamentary leader of the CDS, Telmo Correia, the former governor Paulo Núncio, the president of CDS Madeira and the regional secretary of Economy Rui Barreto, the ex-deputy Hélder Amaral, the mayors Jorge Pato, Miguel Paiva and Ricardo Mendes, and also Álvaro Castello-Branco,
There is also a document that goes in the same direction, called “In defense of the freedom of education”, which was delivered in September to the President of the Republic, signed, among others, by Cavaco Silva, Passos Coelho and the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon .
On the contrary, there is also a petition, entitled “Citizenship and development: citizenship is not an option”, which defends the discipline as it is conceived. Among the subscribers is Ana Gomes, candidate for the presidential elections.
