Paraguay
ANEP and the MEC seek to change the rule that allows home education
The call came after the Supreme Court of Justice ruling in the Mennonite case. There were also statements in favor of changing the regulation from the political system and the teachers' union.
ANEP called an emergency meeting with authorities from the Ministry of Education and Culture to push for changes to the law that allows children not to attend educational centers. The decision became known after the Supreme Court of Justice ruling in favor of home education in the Mennonite case, according to Subrayado.
The president of Codicen, Pablo Caggiani, said that in this case the entire judicial process was followed and explained that the meeting seeks to prevent situations of this kind from happening again. He also raised the need to ensure that girls, boys and adolescents are within the education system, whether public or private and in its different modalities.
Caggiani also said that there is broad consensus in the political system to maintain compulsory attendance in education, a feature that, he said, Uruguay has upheld for 150 years.
The Colorado Party legislator and former president of Codicen, Robert Silva, backed the initiative and recalled that he had already presented a bill along those lines. He argued that compulsory attendance is linked to attending the educational center for reasons of socialization, cognitive and emotional development, protection of rights and coexistence with others.
For its part, Fenapes issued a statement in which it questioned the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice and reaffirmed its position in favor of repealing the article that allows home schooling, according to Subrayado.
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