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The case of the two Famalicão students ‘failed’ due to missing the Education for Citizenship and Development classes prompted a petition in favor of respect for the conscientious objection of parents who do not want their children to attend this compulsory discipline .
The document is signed by almost a hundred personalities from the right and conservative sectors, such as former President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho or the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, D. Manuel Clemente.
As reported by O MINHO, the two students, aged 12 and 15, born in Famalicão, attend the Camilo Castelo Branco School Group.
They were ‘failed’ because they had not attended, by parents’ decision, the Education for Citizenship and Development classes, which addresses topics such as Financial Literacy or Environmental Education, as well as Sexuality, Gender Equality and Interculturality.
In practice, they would have to go back two academic years, from 7 to 5 and from 9 to 7.
However, the father of the two students, Artur Mesquita Guimarães, filed a precautionary measure – which was accepted – and another action in which he defends the right not to allow his children to attend this discipline, arguing that it is an interference of the State in the education of students. children.
The case reached Parliament with the Secretary of State for Education highlighting that “the Citizenship and Development component is mandatory, it does not differ from Mathematics, History or Physical Education.”
The governor considered that the decision made, then, by the Class Council that allowed the two students to transition from year to year, despite not having attended the Citizenship and Development classes, was “illegal.”
“When a student does not attend a discipline, it cannot be approved, but recovery plans can be approved that do not hinder the progress of the students,” said the official, ensuring that the “school presented all the instruments and activated the various procedures normal “. to resolve the situation.
“It is one thing for me to be able to pass with a view to recovery, another is to be without discipline”, justified the Secretary of State, who also revealed that “recovery plans” had been presented and “additional work” was proposed, but there was always a “refusal to participate” by parents.
According to the Observer, which advances the news, the petition was launched by the professors of the Catholic University Manuel Braga da Cruz and Mário Pinto, the latter a deputy to the 1976 Constituent Assembly for the PSD.
The document says that it is “imperative that public education policies in Portugal always scrupulously respect, in this case and in all other similar cases, the priority of the right and the duty of mothers and fathers to choose ‘the type of education to give to their children ‘, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights expressly states with these words.
The petition also mentions several articles of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, including article 43, which says that “the State cannot program education and culture according to philosophical, aesthetic, political, ideological or religious guidelines.”
Among the subscribers are the former Prime Minister and also former President of the Republic Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
Rui Machete, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pedro Lomba, Undersecretary of State and Parliamentary Affairs, both members of the Passos Coelho Government, and former Social Democratic MP Miguel Morgado, who was a political advisor to that former Prime Minister. Minister.
The list also includes the name of the lawyer and historian António Araújo, who is an advisor to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Also from the PSD, are the former Minister of Finance and former president of the party Manuela Ferreira Leite, and the former Minister of Education and former president of the National Council of Education, David Justino, who is currently vice president of the PSD.
From the CDS, names such as the former Minister of Overseas and former centrist president Adriano Moreira, the former president of the José Ribeiro e Castro party and also the former Minister of Finance António Bagão Félix.
On the left is only the socialist deputy Sérgio Sousa Pinto.
There are also names of the Catholic Church: the Bishop of Aveiro, D. António Moiteiro, and the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, D. Manuel Clemente.
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