The executive secretary of the Ministry of Education (MEC), Luiz Antônio Tozi, defended today (31) that the homeschooling should complement formal education and that school enrollment follows mandatory. “It encourages the participation of families in the process of educating people. That's what we're talking about right now."
Tozi advocated that children should not be taken out of schools. “Homeschooling does not replace school, it complements school. It is in the law that [children and young people from 4 to 17 years old] have to come to school. It complements the educational process, bringing closer to his house, to where he lives, the issue of education, which is something that has to be valued by society. Parents have to be aware of this and should be participating in the education of their children”.
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The statement was given at a press conference to present the data from the School Census at the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep). “Homeschooling [home education] is basically bringing the family into the educational process, the fact of being able to do the complete education even depends on the STF [Federal Supreme Court], these are things that are being discussed in society”, stated.
Regulating the right to home schooling is among the 35 priority goals of the first 100 days of the Jair Bolsonaro government.
The government intends to do this through a Provisional Measure (MP). This week, the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, which is handling the issue, communicated that it had drafted a first version of the MP.
The Executive Secretary said that he did not have access to the content of the measure, and clarified that within the scope of the MEC, the registrations remain mandatory: “In the contexts of public policy that is up to the MEC, this is what we are doing".
The issue is controversial. On the one hand, parents argue that it is possible to educate their children at home, a model that exists in several countries. On the other hand, several entities expressed their opposition to the process.
The National Council of Education (CNE), in 2000, issued an opinion directing that children and adolescents be enrolled in duly authorized schools. The CNE also understands that the current legislation emphasizes “the importance of exchanging experiences, of exercising reciprocal tolerance, not under the control of of parents but in the coexistence of classrooms, school corridors, recreational spaces, on group excursions outside of school, in the organization of sporting, literary or sociability activities, which demand more than just siblings, so that they reproduce society, where citizenship will be exercised”.
Data presented today by Inep show that the country has about 2 million children and adolescents aged 4 to 17 years out of school, mandatory school age. The highest concentrations of people excluded from the education system are at 4 years of age, with 341,925 children out of pre-school, and at 17 years of age, with 915,455 young people.
Tozi pointed out that the objective of the current administration is to improve basic education. One of the focuses, which is also among the priority goals, is literacy. “What is already planned is to expand the teacher's toolbox”, she says. According to him, the folder will offer options to teachers, still in training.
He explains that the intention is that literacy methods are brought up for discussion. “What matters is bringing the practical part of the classroom to the discussion. Use methods, let's discuss the application of knowledge. Not every child learns the same with every method,” she said.
Data from the School Census are available for consultation on the Inep page. The autarchy provided statistical notes, statistical synopses, microdata and educational indicators. The information is from Agência Brasil.