The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) wants to prevent arbitrary actions against teachers. According to the agency, Citizens' Rights attorneys in the five regions of Brazil have instituted procedures administrative procedures to monitor practices that may represent moral harassment or other forms of arbitrary action against teachers.
The MPF says that recommendations were issued to at least 24 public institutions of basic and higher education asking them to refrain from any abusive behavior in relation to teachers. Recently, supporters of the Escola sem Partido movement have encouraged recordings and denunciations of teachers in the classroom.
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In addition to warning them not to act arbitrarily with their professors, the recommendations issued by the Federal Public Ministry ask that these institutions adopt the appropriate and necessary measures so that there is no form of moral harassment in the face of these professionals - whether by employees, students, family members or responsible.
The purpose of the action, according to the MPF, is to ensure unified action to guarantee the constitutional principles and other norms that govern education in Brazil, in in particular regarding the freedom to learn, teach, research and disseminate thought, art and knowledge, as well as the pluralism of ideas and conceptions pedagogical.
The initiative is part of an action coordinated by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office for Citizens' Rights, a body of the MPF, and has the collaboration of Public Prosecutors Regional Offices for Citizens' Rights, Operational Support Centers for the Federal Attorney for Citizens' Rights, in addition to partner institutions such as state public ministries, Union Public Defenders, State public defenders and sections of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB). The information is from Agência Brasil.
