Homeschooling in Brazil

[gmarie21]

I don’t know if this is the right spot, but I found this interesting:

A Brazilian family has been charged with intellectual abandonment for choosing to home school their children.

Cleber and Bernadeth Nunes of Brazil decided to home school their children three years ago despite the fact it is against the law in their country. Cleber says they made the decision because it was in the best interest of their children.

“It’s well-known the fact that education here in Brazil is a failure,” the father says. “The statistics show that more than 70 percent of teenagers from 15- to 19-years-old [are] illiterate.”

He also adds that violence in school is rampant with more than 80 percent of teachers suffering some form of violence from students. Guns and other weapons being brought on school grounds also add to the problem. Cleber says that as parents they could do a much better job of taking care of their children.

As part of the trial involving the Nunes family, the children were tested by 16 teachers in a variety of subjects. Cleber says they passed with very high scores and then were ordered to undergo a mental examination. “The psychologist reported that they are mentally healthy,” he says.

Yet despite the growing evidence against the charges, the judges refused to drop the case. One of the judges ruled that the test scores should not even be considered because the quality of public schooling versus home schooling was not on trial, and that home schooling can never replace public school.

According to Cleber, that decision proves that the court is ignoring the welfare of the children, and that the real goal is to indoctrinate children in order to be controlled by the state. The Nunes plan to appeal the decision.

Meanwhile, the Brazilian Congress is reviewing a bill that could legalize home schooling in that country. Cleber hopes his case will help show that home schooling is a legitimate form of education and that there are alternatives.

Cleber adds that the “American people are doing a good job on this issue.” He acknowledges that home schooling in America is a growing movement, and shares that he looks to the U.S. with hope that Brazil can follow that example.

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[Feanaro_s_Wife]

Thanks for sharing this! Here in Canada we have a government that is way too involved in daily life and I fear something like this in the future… they already are pushing for government run daycares.

 

[gmarie21]

Thanks for sharing this! Here in Canada we have a government that is way too involved in daily life and I fear something like this in the future… they already are pushing for government run daycares.

I just don’t understand how or why government organizations fear homeschooling so much when it has obviously proven that the children on average excel? Also, many universities and companies prefer homeschoolers. Just like many companies and organizations prefer midwesterners to any other citizen from other areas of the US (this isn’t to offend, I have known many who have hired outside of the midwest and if it’s a midwest candidate over a candidate from another area with the same credentials, the midwest candidate is hired because of the false or true stereotype that they have a better work ethic).

 

[OutinChgoburbs]

I hope somebody can give this family some assistance. Intellectual abandonment in a place that has homeless children running the streets?

I have heard, over the years, the arguments in favor of a total public school environment. One of them is that everybody should receive the same education, so we will all be equal. Well, in some (not all) cases, that would mean we would all be equally ignorant. I have also heard the case for socialization. I don’t think that flies in the face of the Brazilian school system.

I think the biggest factor in this is that what this family is doing is not like everybody else.

 

[leonie]

It’s a confusion of God’s delegation.

God delegates the education of children to their parents.

Parents must answer to God, not to the state.

Some governments think that the parents should answer to them, not that they must answer to parents. State schools must answer to parents. Parents answer to God.

Who has the greater responsibility–the one that stands before the throne of God to answer for his care of his child’s soul or the one (who is entrusted by parents to help in this sacred duty) who must answer to parents?

So confused…a result of original sin, I suppose.

 

[Rob_s_Wife]

charged with intellectual abandonment

Oh geez. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

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**If “intellectual adandonment” is a criminal/civil offense that could cost people their children, then this is WAY bigger than just homeschooling. **

 

[rosy2009]

Josue Bueno, his wife and their 9 children are ordered to submit to psychological treatment under social workers. Because of their homeschooling practices, state officials threaten to remove their children. They flee to Paraguay, where the Brazilian government sends a court official to warn them to return to Brazil and enroll the children in the school.

Cleber Andrade Nunes and his wife Bernadeth took his two teenage children from a public school to homeschool them. Astonishingly, the boys surpassed their peers and were approved for a law school with a high score. Nevertheless, their parents received the official threat: without a school enrolling, they will be jailed and lose the custody over their children. unreal flash xbox 360

Teaching children at home had always been a right in Brazil, because past Brazilian constitutions guaranteed it. For example, the Constitution of 1946 (Article 166) says, “The education is a right of all and it will be given at home and in the school. It should be inspired by the principles of freedom and in the ideals of human solidarity”. No Brazilian parent was threatened, fined or jailed for teaching children at home.

 

[Christiano]

I wish homeschooling was legal in Brazil. When I have kids, I’d rather homeschool them than have them study in low quality public schools or in extremely expensive private schools.

 

[TedDC]

I wish homeschooling was legal in Brazil. When I have kids, I’d rather homeschool them than have them study in low quality public schools or in extremely expensive private schools.

You should start with the alphabet, using educational videos like this:
youtube.com/watch?v=xdBIgs2sWzI
If “a rainha” says I only need to know 23 letters, that’s good enough for me