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A manifesto circulated on Thursday affirms that ethics cannot be conscientiously objected and criticizes those who maintain that discipline is optional.
Approximately 500 people have already signed the document “Citizenship and development: citizenship is not an option” which rejects the possibility of evoking conscientious objection (from parents) so that 2nd and 3rd cycle students do not attend school. discipline.
“It is taking a public position to attack a discipline that is fundamental for the education of young people and for the creation of a better society,” said Helena Ferro de Gouveia, one of the authors of the manifesto with the support of Ana Gomes. Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos, Teresa Pizarro Beleza, Daniel Oliveira, Alexandre Quintanilha, Catarina Marcelino, Miguem Somsen, among professors, politicians, journalists, doctors, researchers, deputies and national and local organizations.
“Science and ethics are at the base of education,” says the document that states that subjects such as Citizenship help students “distinguish between what is ideology and what is knowledge.”
The motion came after two Famalicão students had not attended the discipline for two years, and the father had raised a conscientious objection stating that the study area was the responsibility of the family and not the school.
The discipline is compulsory and transversal and the Ministry of Education affirms that students must attend it. The father of the students advanced two cases in the Administrative and Fiscal Court of Braga and a precautionary measure that allows them to continue in school. A document signed by a hundred people, including Cavaco Silva, Passos Coelho and the cardinal patriarch, asks that the conscientious objection to the non-attendance of the discipline be allowed, having motivated this new manifesto.
“Ethics and citizenship cannot be the object of conscientious objection,” said Ana Gomes, a former PS MEP. “The controversy created around the discipline is an offensive by the extreme right and the conservative right,” he told JN.
The constitutionalist Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos recalls that “the content of the discipline is in the Portuguese Constitution” and that “everything that concerns citizenship must be part of education.”
“I am very afraid of uneducated youth, but I am not afraid of educated youth,” said writer Richard Zimler, another of the document’s subscribers. And he continues: “citizenship, and everything that is part of it, is as important as mathematics or geography.” The manifesto will be delivered to the President of the Republic.
“We want a modern society, with well-trained children and young people with critical thinking,” concluded Helena Ferro de Gouveia.
Teachers in favor
The National Federation of Teachers (FENPROF) coincides with the mandatory discipline of Education for Citizenship and Development. In a statement, the teachers affirm that the school cannot fail to respond, among many others, to the challenge of citizenship and development, and this cannot be a mere option.
Marcelo receives movement
The President of the Republic will receive the manifesto. This week he received the authors of the petition “In defense of educational freedoms”, which calls for conscientious objection.
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