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PAIS CONDENADOS POR…EDUCAR EM CASA SEUS FILHOS
51 statements · 1 politicians · May 21, 2026 · 4 min
Statements by Nikolas Ferreira. 51 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Education, Judiciary, Family Rights, Legislative Process.
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About: criminalize homeschooling
Folks, imagine you getting a fine of one and a half million reais and 50 days in jail for educating your children at home.
- Neutral
About: criminalize homeschooling
That's exactly what happened in Brazil.
- Neutral
About: convict parents for practicing homeschooling
Here, judges sentenced a couple to 50 days in prison for educating their own daughters at home, in São Paulo.
- Neutral
About: criminalize homeschooling
And in Paraná, a family that was also doing homeschooling ended up suffering a fine of almost one and a half million reais.
I don't know if you understood, I'll repeat.
- Neutral
About: criminalize homeschooling
Parents who were educating their children at home were treated like criminals.
About: investigate and punish abuse of authority by members of the Judiciary
Just like I went after the judge, right, who released a pedophile here in Minas Gerais.
About: refer judges to the National Council of Justice to investigate conduct
We're also going to take that judge to the National Council of Justice.
- Neutral
About: permit homeschooling as an educational option
Because, in the São Paulo case, the girls studied at home, had routines, had oversight, had about 30 books per year.
The Brazilian average is 3 per year.
They studied math, science, history, geography, English, Latin, piano and even participated in the choir.
The mother already had training in accounting.
Then, to improve her daughters' education, she went and got degrees in mathematics and pedagogy.
Now, look at the inversion of values.
About: permit homeschooling as an educational option
Instead of being seen as care, as concern, she ended up being convicted of intellectual abandonment.
- Neutral
About: base judicial decisions on objective criteria of educational evaluation
And the decision cites the fact that the girls didn't like funk and sertanejo.
Look at the face of the judge who decided that.
The skin literally doesn't fail.
In today's Brazil, if a child leaves school, I don't know, illiterate, it's all fine.
And heaven forbid you say something, right?
Because it can come across as linguistic prejudice.
About: permit homeschooling as an educational option
But if a family teaches well at home, then the system literally treats it like a crime.
And in Paraná... it was another bizarre case.
- Neutral
About: permit homeschooling as an educational option
A family spent two years teaching their children at home, with records of activities, oversight, regular content and even practical activities.
- Neutral
About: apply fines to families practicing homeschooling
Even so, they were hit with a daily fine that reached almost one and a half million reais.
- Neutral
About: protect property and rights of families that practice homeschooling
The family had their bank account frozen, car blocked, psychological pressure.
- Ambiguous
About: prioritize education in government
And I ask you, is this really the biggest problem of Brazilian education?
- Neutral
About: improve municipal education indicators
Because in PIROS, which is an international reading assessment, Brazil ranked among the lowest.
Almost 4 in every 10 Brazilian fourth-grade students didn't even master basic reading skills, like, for example, locating a clear piece of information within a text.
- Neutral
About: expand mathematics learning in basic education
In PISA 2022, 73% of our students had low performance in mathematics.
In reading, half were low-performing.
- Neutral
About: ensure 100% of children are literate by the second year of elementary school
So yes, the State talks about literacy, talks about teaching math, talks about educating millions of children.
About: permit homeschooling as an educational option
Then, when a family decides to assume the responsibility of educating better... their own children, it seems like the whole world wants to punish them.
- Neutral
About: debate and formulate public education policies
Indeed, folks, Brazil's educational crisis isn't a crisis, it's a project.
About: permit homeschooling as an educational option
And just to make one point very clear as well, those who love to keep distorting my videos, I'm not saying that all families should do homeschooling, no.
About: maintain the public education system and not replace it with homeschooling
Traditional school will continue to exist, millions of families will continue choosing school, and that's fine.
About: guarantee educational choice with responsibility
What we're defending is freedom with responsibility.
About: permit homeschooling as an educational option
A family that wants to educate at home, with rules, oversight, evaluation, transparency, real commitment to the child's development, should have that right respected, because the child doesn't belong to the State, the child belongs to the family, for crying out loud.
- Neutral
About: recognize the constitutionality of homeschooling
The STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) itself, in theme 822... does not say that homeschooling is incompatible with the Constitution.
- Neutral
About: create a federal law to regulate homeschooling
On the contrary, it declared it constitutional and that only a federal law was missing to regulate it.
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