Successive glaring errors in content led the São Paulo Court to order, this Monday (4), the State Department of Education to suspend the distribution of digital teaching material. Among the most serious inaccuracies found in the material, highlight is the statement that the capital of São Paulo 'has a beach', whose water could transmit Parkinson's disease.
When consulted about this, the São Paulo secretariat noted, in a note, that ‘it had not yet been notified of the court decision, adding that “all the errors highlighted have already been remedied, the materials used in the classroom have been replaced and no school in the State continues with teaching material that contains the identified flaws”, without mentioning the removal of the directors responsible for producing the content erroneous.
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By accepting the injunction of state deputy Professora Bebel (PT) – who presided over the SP state teachers' union – the judge of the 9th Public Finance Court, Simone Gomes Rodrigues Casoretti gave 48 hours for the secretariat to remove the erroneous material from the air, “until they are correctly reviewed and follow the standards established by the Ministry of Education". The judge also set a daily fine of R$10,000 in case of non-compliance with the order.
In her request for an injunction, the parliamentarian questioned the São Paulo government, for going back on its previous decision, not to join the National Program of Textbook (PNLD), but also for distributing digital teaching material containing several information errors, such as regarding the history of Brazil.
In the report, the UOL website highlights that slides transmitted to elementary school students show Dom Pedro 2º, and not his daughter, Princess Isabel, as responsible for signing the Áurea Law, in 1888, which abolished slavery in the country.
The grotesque errors endorsed by the São Paulo education department do not limit themselves to history, but extend to science and mathematics. On slide 9, for example, it contained the absurd information that water can transmit Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and cause depression if it is contaminated by mercury, pesticides, medicines and chemicals in general. In the mathematical field, another mistake was found in a simple division calculation, 36 by 9, which gives four and not six, as shown in slide 7.
