41 107 OBJECTIONS TO CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION COURSE. Family
Madrid, June 25. The school year just ended was the first in which the subject Education for Citizenship (EPC) has been taught in 3 of compulsory secondary education in seven regions. The matter has already provoked controversy, according to data from BY PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, more than 41 thousand conscientious objections filed by parents who refuse to have their children educated morally by the State or Autonomous Community.
However, the controversy has only just begun for the upcoming school year EpC will be held in Spain, in 2 º or 3 º ESO (depending on the region), in 4 º ESO (under the name Education Ethical and Civic ) and 1 º de Bachillerato (Philosophy and Citizenship).
These data were presented today in Madrid by Professionals for Ethics. Under this partnership, the territorial expansion of the subject and its extension to other courses multiplied conscientious objections of parents. Expected, therefore, a "hot autumn" in the field of education.
To Leonor Tamayo, coordinator of the Campaign for Objection to EPC Professionals for Ethics, reflecting the movement objector is certainly an unprecedented social movement in Spain, both for its strength as its dynamics, its goals and identity protagonists.
Tamayo has said that "parents in Spain have risen, literally, to tell the government that they will not allow further progress in its efforts totalitarian, that EPC is a state trespass in an area that is exclusive to parents. And so have objected, despite unsubstantiated threats the Minister or the Minister of Education, despite the suspense or the hostile attitude of some schools (public and) despite the broken promises or the inconsistency of politicians. "
also the coordinator of this campaign has pointed out that the objectors have a son objection communication with which we are not talking about 41 107 parents objectors but No objections. Parents objectors, of course, are twice as normally sign the objection the father and mother ..
By region, which has a higher number of objections is followed Madrid Castilla La Mancha and Andalusia. "Taking note that the first objection to the course was presented in April 200 7 ", Tamayo has said," we can say that since then there have been over 100 objections EpC daily. Moreover, we must remember that, in complete safety, the number of objections than this figure because there are many parents who object and is not communicated to any association or platform, just to school and educational administration. "
In this campaign, has told Tamayo, parents have been mobilized, ie anonymous citizens, responsible and courageous platforms have been organized into associations. If in February 2007 there were 32 associations that promoted EPC objection to the theme your children, your choice, today there are 92 institutions that shape the objector movement. These platforms and partnerships are getting information to parents, facilitate the handling of the objection and the legal and moral support to the objectors and their families.
then intervened Almudena Pastor, a representative of one of the platforms Madrid (Alcalá Educa Libertad). According to Shepherd in the past month have conducted five briefings on EPC in Alcalá de Henares, Torrejón de Ardoz, and Meco. His experience is that parents are unaware of the true depth of the subject since reading the objectives of the EPC and Ethical Civic Education is clearly perceived to be in young people a concrete way of thinking about things like "personal identity, the values \u200b\u200bof everyday life or living in the family. "After reading the decrees of the EPC," says Shepherd, "I am separated from my mother's role as an educator of my children and relegated to being a caregiver feeder."
in similar terms has been expressed Madrid spokesman for another platform (Education in Liberty. Madrid Noroeste), Mariví Urbina, who has assured that its concerns are increased by how much parents are informed of the purpose of the EPC, which is "form students' moral consciousness. "
Jaime finally intervened Urcelay , President of Professionals for Ethics, who has drawn the current situation and expectations about conscientious objection to EPC. In short, Urcelay has ensured that:
EpC fracture is causing considerable social and legal conflict with the fundamental rights of parents. The subject, as is proposed, should be withdrawn or become a volunteer.
The key issue remains the information on the subject. The Government and education authorities continue to distort the reality of the new matter and the right to conscientious objection of parents.
can not understand that existing state court decisions and lack of neutrality of the subject and the right of parents to object, to continue working parents objectors as criminals and are occurring situations like those of Andalusia (the Board contempt of court) and Asturias (initiation of disciplinary proceedings to parents without legal basis and with the sole purpose of intimidating). It is also unspeakable complicity CEAPA policy (English Confederation of Parents) to request the intervention of the prosecution against parents. "Objectors", he said, "will defend the crackdown by all legitimate means at its disposal and we are going to continue to support."
If the Government and Administrations education remain the same insensitivity to social reality and the same lack of dialogue, the objections will continue to multiply. The objection is a constitutional right and is the only resource that is being left to parents. In the final leg of course the presentation of objections has multiplied. For two months they have grown nearly 44%, in Madrid, 72%.
There are hundreds of court actions raised against the subject, to which we must now add the new location opened in Valencia, where the same parents who deny the constitutional right to conscientious objection now openly call for disobedience pure and simple compared to an Order of the Ministry of Education. This is unsustainable. While the Supreme Court sentencing will occur more demands and requests for precautionary measures may be very soon new court decisions at least in the Courts of Cantabria, La Rioja and Navarra. The year 2008-2009 will learn a complex prosecution do not know where it can lead to our already battered school system. We
calling on the recovery of sanity, rationality and dialogue. The Government should practice once touted as demagogic whenever he speaks of this subject. Parents ask only dialogue, respect for social diversity, not imposing any moral conscience and no freedom for all.
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or civics by Victorino Mayoral (Cives Foundation)
for Citizenship Education is not exactly trivial matter, or short haul in the history of education and citizenship. Only if one ignores the origins and cultural significance, social policy and the concept and nature of democratic citizenship can accept the reductionist view, neo-conservative, fundamentalist who deny the social dimension of man. As Aristotle said only gods or fools can live on the margins of society and citizenship. All democratic systems have acted and act known by the same logic: the values \u200b\u200bunderlying the rights, freedoms and duties citizenship should be part of the education of all citizens, without the rights of parents to choose religious and moral education appropriate for their children believe constitute an obstacle to the deployment academic training in democratic values \u200b\u200bby public authorities. Civic education is taught in American schools since the 1840's and in the levels of Primary and Secondary education in France since Jules Ferry civique instruction introduced in 1882. Today, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the United Nations call for the development or cross-curricular, civic education and its generalization in education systems democracy is a reality. As early as 1972 in the report on education in the future, prepared by a UNESCO committee, chaired by Edgar Faure was said "the school is continuing and will continue to rely a role of civic education, what matters is not knowing the its place in teaching this type of instruction, but to what purpose serves, "encouraging the emergence of individuals with a way to really conceive their own relationships with the world, or condition to individuals subject to tax and models easier to govern?, "encourage the formation of spirits drunk with freedom and provided a critical or consecrate hierarchies?" (Learning be. Alianza Editorial / UNESCO, 1972).
What, then, with the right of parents to have their children receive religious and moral instruction in accordance with their own convictions, as provided for in art. 27.3 of the English Constitution? Is this right antagonistic to public authorities' duty to promote education of citizens in the common values, ordered according to Article 27-2 of the Constitution, on the lowest common ethical right as enshrined in the Constitutional Court and that containing both the English Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? "Our Constitution is so inconsistent as to establish two contradictory articles? It would be absurd. Occurs rather than in our view, the Constitution provides for two levels of training in values, something which is unacceptable to the approach Manichaean battle between the two cities and between good and evil that support the Catholic neoconservatives Spain: on the one hand, the plane corresponding to the family and respect and guarantees concerning their private freedoms of conscience and religion, and secondly, the plane that corresponds to society, public space and public institutions and common in which individuals and families who attend free and legitimately assume religious beliefs or moral convictions individuals which are different from each other and have to live in peace and mutual tolerance, without trying to impose one upon the other, it requires to organize coexistence and self-education of citizens from a ethical values \u200b\u200band common ground rules.
The family is a basic institution of society and not an island entire of itself, is a part of society and should not be treated as a satellite anarchic order and that disrupts social harmony and institutional capacity for coexistence. The family and the individual needs of society, its institutions and public services to ensure their own survival. This is true, but unfortunately it is possible that supporters of the doctrine of the two cities remain, as in ancient times, trying to theorize the moral superiority of the heavenly city as the only possible moral, not to any other on the earthly city, and knowing that, ultimately, societies and families of real and concrete cities of today need peremptorily that the school will provide quality training that, inevitably, must contain the social and civic responsibilities inherent in a good education for citizenship.
* Chairman of the Education and Welfare Foundation and the League Cives English Education and Popular Culture.
for Citizenship Education is not exactly trivial matter, or short haul in the history of education and citizenship. Only if one ignores the origins and cultural significance, social policy and the concept and nature of democratic citizenship can accept the reductionist view, neo-conservative, fundamentalist who deny the social dimension of man. As Aristotle said only gods or fools can live on the margins of society and citizenship. All democratic systems have acted and act known by the same logic: the values \u200b\u200bunderlying the rights, freedoms and duties citizenship should be part of the education of all citizens, without the rights of parents to choose religious and moral education appropriate for their children believe constitute an obstacle to the deployment academic training in democratic values \u200b\u200bby public authorities. Civic education is taught in American schools since the 1840's and in the levels of Primary and Secondary education in France since Jules Ferry civique instruction introduced in 1882. Today, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the United Nations call for the development or cross-curricular, civic education and its generalization in education systems democracy is a reality. As early as 1972 in the report on education in the future, prepared by a UNESCO committee, chaired by Edgar Faure was said "the school is continuing and will continue to rely a role of civic education, what matters is not knowing the its place in teaching this type of instruction, but to what purpose serves, "encouraging the emergence of individuals with a way to really conceive their own relationships with the world, or condition to individuals subject to tax and models easier to govern?, "encourage the formation of spirits drunk with freedom and provided a critical or consecrate hierarchies?" (Learning be. Alianza Editorial / UNESCO, 1972).
What, then, with the right of parents to have their children receive religious and moral instruction in accordance with their own convictions, as provided for in art. 27.3 of the English Constitution? Is this right antagonistic to public authorities' duty to promote education of citizens in the common values, ordered according to Article 27-2 of the Constitution, on the lowest common ethical right as enshrined in the Constitutional Court and that containing both the English Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? "Our Constitution is so inconsistent as to establish two contradictory articles? It would be absurd. Occurs rather than in our view, the Constitution provides for two levels of training in values, something which is unacceptable to the approach Manichaean battle between the two cities and between good and evil that support the Catholic neoconservatives Spain: on the one hand, the plane corresponding to the family and respect and guarantees concerning their private freedoms of conscience and religion, and secondly, the plane that corresponds to society, public space and public institutions and common in which individuals and families who attend free and legitimately assume religious beliefs or moral convictions individuals which are different from each other and have to live in peace and mutual tolerance, without trying to impose one upon the other, it requires to organize coexistence and self-education of citizens from a ethical values \u200b\u200band common ground rules.
The family is a basic institution of society and not an island entire of itself, is a part of society and should not be treated as a satellite anarchic order and that disrupts social harmony and institutional capacity for coexistence. The family and the individual needs of society, its institutions and public services to ensure their own survival. This is true, but unfortunately it is possible that supporters of the doctrine of the two cities remain, as in ancient times, trying to theorize the moral superiority of the heavenly city as the only possible moral, not to any other on the earthly city, and knowing that, ultimately, societies and families of real and concrete cities of today need peremptorily that the school will provide quality training that, inevitably, must contain the social and civic responsibilities inherent in a good education for citizenship.
* Chairman of the Education and Welfare Foundation and the League Cives English Education and Popular Culture.
Tuscan Colors For A Party
Canary HO calls on all parents to exercise their right to conscientious objection to the adoctrinante
"Do not be afraid: the education rests with parents. Trespass to the state in the moral education of our children, not one step back "
After including the controversial subject of" Education for Citizenship "introduced by the Zapatero government without consensus or dialogue with a high ideological content based on relativism, in attacking religions, gender ideology, in defense of abortion, and other ideas of the ideology of Mr. Zapatero, many brave parents, aware of the importance of education in life of children, decided not to take a step back and exercise their right to conscientious objection.
This movement for freedom and the right under our Constitution and international treaties such as the Human Rights of parents to choose the type of education they want for their children, born as a David against the powerful new Goliath of the state. However
History has repeated itself and it looks like David, with the weapon of justice, can defeat the mighty Goliath. Therefore HO adoctrinantes Canary Islands to the subjects of the EPC, invites all parents of our islands to exercise their right and to object.
Recently, the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia has given why some parents objectors against the arbitrary decision of Mr. Chaves, regional president, is not met on your right.
EPC is a danger to the education of our children, who argues that there is no truth, does not teach the constitutional order, but seeks to educate our children in the peculiar vision of the life of Mr. Zapatero, a strong vision by gender ideology that supports, for example, the strange idea that there is no male nor female but is simply cultural difference is something that attacks the family, which ignores the role of religion in people's lives, that is belligerent against some political positions while behind another, and so on. An example is sensitive to the Canaries, for example, a book publisher who is Akal our children to relate the crisis of agriculture canaria with drug addiction for much of our population, an assertion completely unrealistic.
No matter the color of the Government in the islands to oppose state interference in the education of our children. This is not a partisan battle, but a battle for freedom.
Therefore we reiterate our recommendation to all parents canaries to alert you and object to deal with this subject completely unnecessary. José Castro, head of Education in Spain HO argues that "Do not be afraid: the education rests with parents. Trespass to the state in the moral education of our children, not one step back "
For more information:
www.hazteoir.org
www.profesionalesetica.org where you can find several studies on the subject, advice and documents to formally present the objection.
"Do not be afraid: the education rests with parents. Trespass to the state in the moral education of our children, not one step back "
After including the controversial subject of" Education for Citizenship "introduced by the Zapatero government without consensus or dialogue with a high ideological content based on relativism, in attacking religions, gender ideology, in defense of abortion, and other ideas of the ideology of Mr. Zapatero, many brave parents, aware of the importance of education in life of children, decided not to take a step back and exercise their right to conscientious objection.
This movement for freedom and the right under our Constitution and international treaties such as the Human Rights of parents to choose the type of education they want for their children, born as a David against the powerful new Goliath of the state. However
History has repeated itself and it looks like David, with the weapon of justice, can defeat the mighty Goliath. Therefore HO adoctrinantes Canary Islands to the subjects of the EPC, invites all parents of our islands to exercise their right and to object.
Recently, the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia has given why some parents objectors against the arbitrary decision of Mr. Chaves, regional president, is not met on your right.
EPC is a danger to the education of our children, who argues that there is no truth, does not teach the constitutional order, but seeks to educate our children in the peculiar vision of the life of Mr. Zapatero, a strong vision by gender ideology that supports, for example, the strange idea that there is no male nor female but is simply cultural difference is something that attacks the family, which ignores the role of religion in people's lives, that is belligerent against some political positions while behind another, and so on. An example is sensitive to the Canaries, for example, a book publisher who is Akal our children to relate the crisis of agriculture canaria with drug addiction for much of our population, an assertion completely unrealistic.
No matter the color of the Government in the islands to oppose state interference in the education of our children. This is not a partisan battle, but a battle for freedom.
Therefore we reiterate our recommendation to all parents canaries to alert you and object to deal with this subject completely unnecessary. José Castro, head of Education in Spain HO argues that "Do not be afraid: the education rests with parents. Trespass to the state in the moral education of our children, not one step back "
For more information:
www.hazteoir.org
www.profesionalesetica.org where you can find several studies on the subject, advice and documents to formally present the objection.
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