Government Seeks To Legalize Homeschooling With Executive Order

Supreme Court ruled that practice was illegal for lack of proper regulation

Jan.24.2019 4:35AM

BRASÍLIA and SÃO PAULO
The Bolsonaro administration included in the list of goals for its first 100 days a provisional measure (a kind of executive order) to regulate homeschooling in Brazil.

The Brazilian Supreme Court outlawed the practice last year. In the ruling, most justices understood that since there were no regulations to homeschooling, it couldn't be considered a valid alternative for parents to educate their children.

The provisional measure will normalize the families who are already homeschooling their children. According to the Brazilian Association of Homeschoolers, there were around 7,500 parents with children taught at home, in 2018.

A portion of those is made of people who disagree with local schools' offerings for religious reasons.

More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/01/government-seeks-to-legalize-homeschooling-with-executive-order.shtml