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Educational standard of Education limits internal authority of the schools

They say that they leave the private schools with no option in the face of serious misbehavior by st

SD. The President of the Association of Private Educational Institutions (AIN EP) said that the new educational standards for coexistence in public and private schools issued by the Ministry of Education (Miner) limit the internal authority of the school directors to impose disciplinary measures on students for serious and very serious problems of behavior.

Rafael Rodriguez, who is also the president of the Luis Muñoz Rivera School, said in a letter sent to the director of the Diario Libre, that the new "standards of the Dominican Educational System for the Harmonious Coexistence of the Public and Private Educational Centers of the Ministry of Education" will be harmful for the schools.

"They eliminate all of the sanctions that could serve to dissuade students from committing serious or very serious misbehaviors (which were also eliminated from the regulation), leaving in force only measures without any real value, as for example, a dialogue between the parties involved in any conflict," notes Rodriguez.

He notes that articles 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 of this new standard eliminate the possibility of establishing sanctions for a student by the school director, as well as the possibility of expulsion for very serious misbehaviors, such as the consumption of prohibited substances or aggression against some member of the school.

"Now you will have ‘to consult the District Director, CONANI and institutions that provide psychosocial and educational services in the community' and instead of applying exemplary punishments to students for violators of the regulations which would permit them to receive lifelong lessons," noted Rodriguez.

Rodriguez assured reporters, that in addition, this standard was not notified to the schools and that "it is important to note that now there is no "Regulations for Private Educational Institutions" and for some time there has been no Director of Private Schools in the Ministry."

Given these considerations, Rodriguez said that the school which he directs has a Parents Association which has decided to reject the standards of Miner calling them "insufficient for achieving a harmonious and save environment."

A case in the courts

Last April, the Constitutional Tribunal declared inadmissible a request for an appeal against a sentence of September 2012 which sanctioned a private school for expelling a student, who allegedly threatened a professor after an exam was stolen.

The antecedents of the case noted in a sentence 56 - 14 by the Constitutional Tribunal, indicate that among the considerations by the Boys, Girls and Adolescents Tribunal of the National District to order the readmission of the student, it was established that the action by the school "injures, restrains, alters and threatens those fundamental rights contained in article 63 and 56 of the Constitution of the Republic, and 28 2 of the Convention on the Rights of Children."

The private school was also sentenced to pay a penalty of RD $90,000 to the father of the young girl, who finished her high school studies last year at that center.