Evangelical group World Vision joins 34 Brazilian left-wing groups to declare that homeschooling “poses risks” to children and adolescents

By Julio Severo

With the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and children unable to attend school in Brazil, many parents are opting for homeschooling. In reaction, Brazilian left-wingers prepared a manifesto on May 14, 2020 against homeschooling. The manifesto, entitled “In addition to being unconstitutional, homeschooling poses risks to children and adolescents, say 35 organizations in a technical note,” was signed by 35 Brazilian left-wing organizations, including World Vision.

The Brazilian branch of World Vision, which was founded by evangelicals, should fulfill an evangelical mission, and not ally with left-wing groups that constantly attack evangelicals and their values.

What are the complaints from the 35 left-wing groups, including World Vision, against homeschooling?

The manifest complains that “there is no legal support for the practice of homeschooling in Brazil” and that homeschooling “presents other serious risks for the protection of children and adolescents,” adding that “the risks are based on high rates of violence and sexual abuse and child labor occur within the family environment.”

The manifest explains:

According to data from the Ministry of Health, 68% of cases of sexual violence against children and adolescents occur in the home. And most victims of sexual violence are children and adolescents (0 to 17 years old) and female.

With data from the 2019 Brazilian Public Security Yearbook, the technical note shows that every hour, four girls up to 13 years old are raped. And that 66% of male children raped in Brazil are between zero and 15 years old.

The manifesto then blames all this sexual violence in the family environment, without explaining exactly what that environment is. The 35 left-wing groups see the family environment as a “serious risk” environment.

While the normal homeschooling environment is composed of conservative married parents (meaning they are not divorced or remarried because most homeschoolers are practicing Christians), the “family environment” vaguely described by the manifesto does not always have this conservative profile.

If the manifesto were honest, especially with the presence of a large evangelical group that has an international operation, it would praise homeschooling and denounce relationships outside of marriage. But the manifesto does the opposite: it uses the obvious higher violence of relationships outside of marriage, so defended by the left, but prone to abuse, as evidence that homeschooling would be bad.

Traditionally, the left defends relationships outside of marriage, with all its dangers and violence.

And the left traditionally attacks the traditional family, because a conservative married father and mother who educate their children threaten the hegemonic ideological indoctrination of the left in schools. For this reason, the left fights to take children out from families and place them directly under the left-wing indoctrination of schools. A child is much more likely to become a lefty by attending school than by studying in a conservative home.

The left finds easier to monitor and inspect children at school than in homes. One of these inspections includes the issue of physical discipline of children. According to the Spanking Law, passed by socialists in 2014, Brazilian parents are prohibited from physically disciplining their children for disobedience. According to this socialist law, such a discipline constitutes “violence.” So, when a socialist manifesto mentions “child abuse,” that abuse includes what without socialism is not abuse, but a natural right of parents.

The manifesto concludes:

Regulating the practice of homeschooling can aggravate cases of exploitation, abuse and violence against children and adolescents. “It is to prioritize the agenda of a minority — in many cases fundamentalist — to the detriment of the right of the majority. It is, therefore, extremely irresponsible from the point of view of not only education but also the protection of children and adolescents.”

The language of the manifesto, shamefully supported by World Vision, reveals the center of its concern by saying that the legalization of homeschooling prioritizes the agenda of a “fundamentalist” minority. This term is often used not to describe unhealthy family environments, but Christian families following biblical and conservative principles. In no way does homeschooling harm most people, as the document points out, because homeschooling is never imposed on anyone. But, of course, it brings huge losses to the left.

The manifesto considers the conservative home to be an unsafe environment — for socialist indoctrination, of course — and the school environment to be safe — for socialist indoctrination, of course.

As a homeschooling advocate in Brazil for over 20 years (I am the translator of the book They Way Home, by Mary Pride), the only risk I see is the hijacking of the homeschooling banner. In the administration of Jair Bolsonaro, many occult adherents hold important positions, including in the area of education. These occultists were appointed by Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro’s guru. Carvalho is a member of the Traditionalist School, whose most prominent member was Julius Evola, guru of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

Although Bolsonaro has been elected mainly by evangelicals, he chose to fill his administration with adherents of Carvalho, who use conservatism, including homeschooling, to promote his occult “traditionalist” agenda.

However, the manifesto attacks all homeschooling supporters in Brazil, whether they do it for Christian reasons or for esoteric and “traditionalist” reasons.

Among the 35 groups that signed the socialist document are:

* Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra, a black supremacist organization that advocates abortion and homosexuality.

* Agenda 2030 Working Group in Brazil, a radically socialist group.

* Paulo Freire Institute, a radically socialist group.

* MST (Landless Rural Workers Movement), a radically socialist group.

* And World Vision.

How does a huge evangelical group like World Vision sign a document that attacks the conservative home as an unsafe environment — for socialist indoctrination — and the school environment as safe — for socialist indoctrination?

Thousands of evangelicals in the U.S. and other countries send donations to World Vision to feed children, not to feed left-wing anti-family fanaticism.

The natural family environment is the greatest protection for the child. To place the school, especially the public school, as a greater protection than the family is something that only socialists do, and something that World Vision is doing by joining 35 radical left-wing groups.

It is time for Christians who send their donations to World Vision to ask questions of this organization that should be at the service of the Gospel and the welfare of children, not the welfare of socialism.

Portuguese version of this article: Entidade evangélica Visão Mundial se une a 34 organizações esquerdistas para declarar que a educação escolar em casa “traz riscos” para crianças e adolescentes

Source: Last Days Watchman

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