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The UPyD councilor and spokesman in the city of Molina de Segura (Murcia), embodies Hernandez has participated this weekend the III National Education organized by UPyD in Palencia, in which we analyzed the state of Education in Spain.
The mayor molinense been commissioned to make a snapshot of the development in our educational system the teaching of citizenship education and human rights, focusing specifically on attention to sexual diversity in the classroom that has traditionally been, according Hernandez, significant deficiencies.
"Educating for human rights and issues related to the fight against homophobia and address the sexual diversity in the classroom," he says, involves work focused on three areas: "the existence of specific materials, its inclusion in the curriculum of transversely, and of course, their own experience within the school. "
For Hernandez, the positive concerning education are essential to address an issue strongly stereotyped as sexual orientation, gender identity or homo families, because of the invisibility and concealment to which it has been subjected. "
UPyD Councilwoman stressed that Spain is one of the countries with greater social acceptance of homosexuality, regulatory developments due to approval of marriage between persons of the same sex, "but it is necessary that such acceptance will lead to a corresponding normalization visibility and attention in schools. "
Hernandez pointed to the problem of homophobic and transphobic bullying (and possible referral to suicide) as one of the issues that must be installed as a priority on the agenda of national education policies.
Spanish schools still are not safe environments for LGBT adolescents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender: "our government, and education authorities are obliged to address this serious violation of human rights, which greatly affects academic and student personnel in ages especially critical. "
In this sense, Hernandez recalled registered UPyD in Congress proposition of law on this type of bullying, which calls for stronger national studies "to determine the true extent of the problem and thus able to analyze , prevent and treat ", providing training to teachers and help and guidance to victims (who in most cases these situations live quietly and find a response from the centers) and families.
Finally, Hernandez criticized advances in affective-sexual education and prevention of homophobic behaviors are in the air with the educational reform of the Popular Party.
The mayor recalled that the project has eliminated LOMCE Citizenship Education despite the opinion of the Council of State requesting compulsory education include courses on "ethics civic education" which are implanted in most neighboring countries Europe.
The heiress of Citizenship will be an alternative subject to Religion (now assessable and will feature for obtaining grants) Securities whose contents are still fuzzy but in which he lamented Hernandez, did not include issues considered "controversial" by Wert Minister as gender equality or diversity of sexual orientations and existence of different types of families.
According to Hernandez, thus the "Law Wert" will be a "kick intolerable" in areas such as sex education and contribute little to prevent discrimination and homophobic violence in schools.
Source: UPyD Región de Murcia
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