The editorial " More classroom violence," published by ABC on Thursday, recalled some recent developments " show once again the dramatic atmosphere of tension and violence in which hundreds of thousands unfold children in English classrooms "and sends a clear message of warning against these facts.
not be surprising if it were not raised as a solution, which, despite being obvious, has been consistently rejected by the most conservative sectors, including those that traditionally have been part of your target audience: " violent harassment classmates, threats to teachers or simply "fun" to display aggression through mobile phones and the internet are clear proof that if something goes wrong in education in Spain, ahead even of learning content is transmission of civic and moral values. "
The school as a transmitter of civic and moral values! Was not the moral to the more conservative-exclusive patrimony of the family? Do not denouncing the moral training in school as something so abhorrent as to warrant the adoption of extreme measures, such as conscientious objection? It seems
they had to wait a brutal beating of a teenage girl dead and a threat to a teacher to open some eyes. Too bad, but congratulations to awaken to reality. Our society has, today, the greatest diversity of its history, and without a framework of common values, ethics minimum, it is easy for some adolescents desnortados end up sliding down the paths of violence and contempt for the different.
The reality is that we are a pluralistic society, racially mixed and diverse, which should provide an ethical space for private morality, transmitted mainly by the family, can develop without hindrance to the limits imposed by this ethical framework, and not be other to those reported by Human Rights.
are pathetically naive, malicious, perhaps, who demand that the school is not involved in the moral, because it is the preserve of families. If so, would have to tolerate the moral training very different from the parent, for example, the education they offer families with moral Nazi-based contempt for those who feel inferior, or of those who educate their children on racism, sexism or xenophobia, or those who defend the ablation because it is part of their culture and moral aceoptable in private. No, you have to teach these children that these behaviors are not tolerated in our society, while taught, built and supported from his family because they are incompatible with the Declaration of Human Rights.
But how can a child know that common ethical framework, Human Rights, which sets limits to all private morality, including transmitted within the family? Well I can not imagine another way that the school as, indeed, has ever happened. Yes, the school must be the guarantor of the whole child education with the involvement of families, of course, not a mere instrument of instruction. This obvious conclusion was reached when the ABC editorial calls for urgent action to " prevent impoverishment and deterioration even greater school community, "and when required, in addition," a real deal of state in education and not many good words and demagoguery. "
course! It is imperative that politicians of all political stripes, families trying to preserve their children in schools, bunker, cave pundits, columnists, editors and other opinion makers, discover the critical role of teachers in the education of the children and unconditional support that role. That solution is called EPC-Civic Ethics and Cross-cutting issues is a technical matter which should settle the experts. But every society, in unison, should enhance the educational role of school as the main integrator of diversity in a pluralistic society like ours. Either we continue to regret ...
