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The Minister of Education, Camilo Santana, met this afternoon with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) to present a bill that proposes a reform in the so-called "New Secondary Education". The text will be sent to the National Congress in the coming days and brings as a novelty the increase in the minimum workload, the resumption of mandatory subjects, such as Sociology and Philosophy, and finally, the revocation of the possibility of unlicensed professionals, " with notorious recognition knowledge", work in teaching.
The proposal was prepared after a public consultation launched by the Ministry of Education (MEC) this year and aimed precisely to collect suggestions regarding the adjustments that should be made to the current system. The reason is that the "New Secondary Education", launched in 2017, under the Michel Temer administration, received criticism from from educators and experts in the field.
One of the PT government's proposals is the resumption of a minimum of 2,400 hours of training for all students to attend high school without integration with a technical course. In the system proposed by Temer, students needed to complete a maximum of 1,800 hours for common subjects. In the MEC's view, this weakens students' training.
Another "problem identified" by the ministry was the decision to eliminate or reduce the workload of subjects such as Sociology, Philosophy, Arts and Physical Education. Because of this, the government's PL proposes the return of all these subjects, which would become mandatory, including Spanish language. In the latter case, there will be a three-year period for implementation.
Furthermore, the Minister of Education is proposing a change in another highly criticized feature of the "New Secondary Education": the inclusion of people without specific teacher training (degree) as teaching professionals, based on a supposed "notorious knowledge" of teaching. professional. The measure was targeted by teachers and teaching professional. The measure was targeted by teachers and teaching professionals.
The solution proposed by the current management is to revoke the inclusion of these unlicensed professionals and regulate situations in which they will be able to work, on an exceptional basis, in teaching high school.
The fourth central element of the bill is the issue of training itineraries, a set of subjects that students can choose to focus on during high school. In the current format, the system allows up to five different possibilities, which the MEC assesses as a "dispersion". Furthermore, in the department's assessment, there is "inequality" in the offering of these itineraries.
Because of this, the PL's proposal is to transform the itineraries into "Deepening and Integration of Studies Routes", which will have to be delimited into four possibilities. These options, in turn, must cover at least three areas of knowledge. Furthermore, the text proposes that each school be obliged to offer at least two of the four possible routes,