Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected to newly mandatory school sessions in some parts of the country.
Since I didn’t immediately understand what this is about: “EVRAS” stands for “Relational, Emotional and Sexual Education” and it is a general guide for schools on how to educate school children on this matter. How many hours are advised, which topics should be talked about, etc.
For example the UNESCO and the WHO research and work on EVRAS programs. But each school implements it differently, it’s just a framework.
This is a summary on topics which are mentioned in the program. So it’s basically a help for teachers on how to talk about that stuff:
Promoting the respect between boys and girls, women and men ;
Offering the possibility to anyone to make informed choices and to act by respecting oneself and others ;
Preparing pupils to physiologic, psychologic and social changes linked to puberty ;
Offering the possibility to everyone to get necessary aptitudes to face every aspects of sexuality and romantic relationships ;
Promoting the capacity of everyone to communicate on sexuality, emotions, relations and to acquire necessary vocabulary to be able to communicate it properly
Sources (hard to find because everyone’s talking about the arsons…):
I can think of many things that could be argued as fitting in those categories that are happening in some countries that are unsafe. for example having books in schools that are already categorized as not suitable for children. you can find may youtube videos of parents trying to quote some of this books to the school boards and the school board usually shuts them up for indicency. so i don’t think that content that the school board is not comfortable with and think it’s indicent as safe. but you can frame it under ‘Promoting the capacity of everyone to communicate on sexuality, emotions, relations and to acquire necessary vocabulary to be able to communicate it properly’.
Since I didn’t immediately understand what this is about: “EVRAS” stands for “Relational, Emotional and Sexual Education” and it is a general guide for schools on how to educate school children on this matter. How many hours are advised, which topics should be talked about, etc. For example the UNESCO and the WHO research and work on EVRAS programs. But each school implements it differently, it’s just a framework.
This is a summary on topics which are mentioned in the program. So it’s basically a help for teachers on how to talk about that stuff:
Sources (hard to find because everyone’s talking about the arsons…):
https://national-policies.eacea.ec.europa.eu/youthwiki/chapters/belgium-french-community/74-healthy-lifestyles-and-healthy-nutrition
https://journals.openedition.org/brussels/6958
They have great objectives. Hopefully they are pursuing them in a safe/sane manner.
What would you think of as an unsafe manner?
I can think of many things that could be argued as fitting in those categories that are happening in some countries that are unsafe. for example having books in schools that are already categorized as not suitable for children. you can find may youtube videos of parents trying to quote some of this books to the school boards and the school board usually shuts them up for indicency. so i don’t think that content that the school board is not comfortable with and think it’s indicent as safe. but you can frame it under ‘Promoting the capacity of everyone to communicate on sexuality, emotions, relations and to acquire necessary vocabulary to be able to communicate it properly’.