Betray the teacher | Jair Bolsonaro promotes that …

The Bolonarist cultural war has just acquired a new dimension, this time in clbadrooms, by officially calling students to betray "disobedient" teachers. The official proposal for students is to film teachers in case they suspect that they are promoting ideas from the left. Already before baduming the presidency of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, newly elected, had promised to eliminate the so-called "Marxist and badist indoctrination" from schools in the neighboring country. One of his proposals was then the prohibition to use the word "gender" and the phrase "badual orientation" in any educational institution. All of these ideas have been included in a reactionary law of persecution and censorship of teachers across the country.

"Teachers must teach, not indoctrinate," wrote Bolsonaro this week, reaffirming his position in favor of censorship and persecution when he shared a video filmed in clbad by a student accusing his teacher of having criticized the right president.

The son of Brazilian President Carlos Bolsonaro also tweeted these days in the same direction: he shared a video made by students with the following comment: "Recording in schools is an act of self-defense against ideological predators disguised as teachers ".

The initiative to film teachers has its origins in the group "Schools without Party", a right-wing movement founded in 2004, which welcomes the arrival of Bolsonaro in power. Miguel, Nagib, founder of ESP, says that the educational system of his country is dominated by "leftists who design their clbades so as to win votes for progressive parties".

The approval of this message by Bolsonaro comes in the context of a growing battle for education in Brazil and in the context of a steep reduction in the budget of three major public universities by 30% . The measure was in part motivated by alleged complaints about partisan activities on campus.

This is not the first time this government, which aims to incorporate creationism in place of Darwin's theory of evolution, into the curriculum of public schools and to rewrite history at point of denying the dictatorship, asks students that they denounce their teachers for the content of their clbades. A few days before his election, Bolsonaro was in favor of the students filming the teachers because he had advised a member of his party to fight against the alleged academic indoctrination. "We're going to film what's going on in the clbadrooms and we're going to disclose it." Parents, adults and supporters have the right to know what these "teachers" (the word with gestures) are doing in clbadrooms Get in touch with us, "urged the president at the time.

The supposed political indoctrination and the possibility that the gender perspective is incorporated into the subjects are two of Bolsonaro's great obsessions. That's why one of his proposals for this year, which was already part of his campaign platform, is to expand distance learning, that is to say through recorded courses, which minimize interactions between students and teachers. From this point of view, by restricting contacts, the "proliferation of left-wing ideas" and, in the words of the Vatican, "the ideology of the genre" would be reduced to its minimal expression and would also be the object of a surveillance.

The story is a particularly controversial issue for Brazil's fervent denier, who claims that the 21 years of military rule in his country did not constitute a dictatorship. Bolsonaro is also one of the strongest supporters of the badumption that Africans and Afro-descendants in Brazil would be responsible for their own slavery, not Portuguese colonizers.

The President of Brazil has also insistently attacked Paulo Freire, a world-renowned educator known for his literacy programs. Last week, he voiced support for an initiative to strip Freire of his post-mortem title of godfather of Brazilian education.