Create a space for discussion about current educational policies and for evaluating how much the constitutional principles of plurality of ideas and respect for diversity.
These were the main motivations of the public hearing held last Monday (30) to discuss the persecution of teachers in Brazil, on a joint initiative by Education and Human Rights committees of the Chamber of Deputies, as a result of a request from federal deputies Talíria Petrone (Psol-RJ), Erika Hilton (Psol-SP) and Professor Luciene Cavalcante (Psol-SP), with the participation of the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Youth and Adult Literacy, Diversity and Inclusion (Secadi), of the Ministry of Education
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As a representative of the MEC, the general coordinator of Educational Policies on Human Rights, from Secadi/MEC, Erasto Fortes Mendonça, considered that ‘defending teachers is defending the right to education of students’. “As a teacher is persecuted, it is the student who also loses, with the persecution that is perpetrated against him”, he stated.
When reading the preamble of the Federal Constitution, Mendonça pointed out that it is necessary to put into practice what is determined in the Magna Carta. “It is necessary to comply with what the Constitution determines, which is the construction of a fraternal society, where everyone respects each other as human beings”, he highlighted.
On the occasion, the secretary also noted that measures to raise awareness, prevent and combat any type of violence in the educational field are developed within the institutions and educational systems of municipalities, states and the District Federal.
“It is not up to the Ministry of Education to directly provide this protection, but it is up to the MEC to coordinate the national policy that allows this protection to occur. This is because it is important for us to ensure the autonomy of education systems, which is in the Constitution and Brazilian education legislation”, explained the secretary.
Also attending the hearing were: the head of the Special Advisory for Education and Culture in Human Rights of the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (MDH), Letícia Cesarino; the teacher from the municipal education network in Porto Alegre (RS); Henrique Maffei; the professor at the University of Brasília (UnB), Débora Diniz; the director of the Faculty of Education at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Fernando Penna; the history teacher and member of the Coletivo Professores contra Escola sem Partido, Renata Aquino; the professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Salomão Ximenes, the counselor of the Union of Education Workers from Santa Catarina (Sinte-SC) and educational counselor from the state of Santa Catarina Juliana Andozio; the professor and researcher, Pâmela Passos, and the Program and Policies coordinator of the National Campaign for the Right to Education, Marcele Frossard.
