The Ministry of Education responds to parents who have made allegations that the objection has no legal support "and" not feasible " offer surrogate activities. Announce recurring families go to court. "If necessary we will reach the Constitutional Court," he warned.
MG / DAY, S / C de Tenerife
The opposition of a group of parents canaries in the course Education for Citizenship (EPC) is on track to finish in the courts, as has happened in other regions. Conscientious objections raised by these families will not be addressed by the Ministry of Education, yesterday ruled that the objection has no legal backing "and that it is not feasible to offer" a surrogate activity. "
Thus, the administration replies to the 189 requests made by parents who oppose the matter to be considered an attempt to "indoctrination" by the State and waiting since the beginning of the course to meet the delivery of legal services of the Ministry. The controversy will
courts Islands as the platform that brings together parents, Tenerife Educa Libertad-"legal basis is formed." This was stated yesterday Colmeiro Elena, a spokesman for the association, who insisted that the Constitution protects their rights.
The Ministry has reminded the objectors that the Organic Law of Education (LOE) categorizes the subject as "mandatory subject." Also explained to parents as legal representatives of the student, "are subject to the rights and obligations provided in the rules governing those enrolled in non-university schools in the Canary Islands while there is no legal or judicial recognition" of the right to claim .
According to management's current rules "does not regulate or set the option the right to conscientious objection in relation to this matter" because the English Constitution "only refers to a particular situation, it is the duty of providing the service conscription. "
also alleges that there Autonomous Executive jurisprudence of the Supreme Court or statement expressed by the Constitutional Court in similar cases and that, moreover, has produced a "divergence of views" between the judgments of the superior courts of different regions such as Catalonia, Basque Country, Asturias, Valencia, Andalusia, Cantabria and La Rioja.
Once we know the response of the Ministry, the families, who had expressed skepticism about the possibility that the Administration meet its demands-are clear about what steps should from now. "If necessary, we will reach the Constitutional Court," said Elena Colmeiro yesterday. The representative of Tenerife Education in Freedom recalled that "until Now, the courts have ruled in favor of the parents or have students provisionally exempted from the obligation to go to class. "
" We are not afraid because it is our right, "said Colmeiro, for whom" can not bind children stay in class. The administration would be against their rights. "Opposition to these families being done EpC object, according to this mother," harassment, "a situation that, unfortunately, also suffer their children to" not addressed "and being" openly identified by other peers. "
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