1.Há fortnight, Manuela Ferreira Leite said in his comment on TVI who did not understand what was the problem of the “war” between private schools subsidized by the state to cover failures of public education and the Government’s decision to dispense some. Like what was said against the current, I do not know if your thinking was absolutely clear. But it is the purest of truths, yet not prevented a controversy that no one knows exactly what is at stake. If an ideological question about the best way to ensure education for all (State or the purchase of the private services) or a matter of interpretation of the law.
The noise was leaving the essential out. Just be aware of the signs that appear in the demonstrations to realize that there is in all this a huge mess. “I pay taxes, have the right to choose the school of my children”, perfectly sums up the confusion installed in the debate. No. It does not have that right. The taxes we pay are to maintain a public education to ensure the best possible basis a principle of European democracies: equality of opportunity. We know that reality does not fully comply with this principle because it interferes difficult problems of social discrimination to solve. But we also know that until proven otherwise this is the best way to keep this principle.
Any family is free to choose the school their children: public and therefore free; private and therefore paying the necessary fees. I remembered seeing this poster, another similar case that happened some time ago and which reveals the same spirit, when the government, in its own right, decided to close the Alfredo da Costa Maternity and transfer to Estefania and Santa Maria its services, by the way of high quality. In a small gathering maternity door (many only were even journalists), another poster stuck in my memory: “I have a right to the place where I was born.” Plus a total mistake. There is not. You are only entitled to receive the best possible care in a public hospital. In fact, if we took into account that half the population of Lisbon is a native of São Sebastião da Pedreira because born in the MAC, imagine what would this manifestation to claim caught. What was even more disturbing was the fact that a court of Lisbon has accepted an injunction to suspend the decision of the Government, as if this were not a mere act of management, rest well grounded in the most advanced standards: the convenience births arise from a hospital with all available resources if there are complications, not the child, but the mother.
Another case in point was the concentration of hospitals in the most complete hospital centers so that children born in services with over a thousand deliveries per year, ie, the experience and the necessary capacity to ensure maximum security. Indeed, it is a standard recommended by WHO. For months, the Health Minister Correia de Campos, faced noisy demonstrations in all sites affected by this change. I do not remember exactly the posters but newspapers gave voice to mothers who wanted to give birth in the country, and not in Badajoz, as planned for the interior Alentejo. Unluckily, there was a child born in the ambulance on the way to Spanish motherhood. It was a scandal. Suddenly, the problem disappeared. It appeared that everything should be going well, and the only reference I saw this episode some time later was a mother, interviewed in Badajoz, saying he liked a lot of the service, the hospital was excellent, etc .. With all that has happened to us, we can still maintain a high quality NHS, which guarantees what my view is the best guarantee a cohesive society and who wants to be fair, especially when it comes to the fundamental value of human life.
it remains something of this outcry about private schools that the state will stop funding? I doubt it. Unless the search for a first divergence between Marcelo and Costa, the new national pastime. Still, the President had to put the points in ii in relation to the statement issued by the School Point Defense Movement, which received in Bethlehem and used improperly their sentences.
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