Colégio Dante Alighieri regrets neutral language video – 03/21/2023 – Panel

The Dante Alighieri school, one of the most traditional in the capital of São Paulo, sent a statement to parents and guardians of students this Monday (20) in which it says it regrets the fact that a teacher showed a video in the classroom that uses the so-called neutral language. The institution was pressured by the students’ families after the incident.

The text states that a History teacher showed the students of one of the 6th grade classes a video from the Laboratory of Archeology and Environmental and Evolutionary Anthropology of the University of São Paulo.

“We regret what happened, since the channel in question presents an editorial treatment of language that does not correspond to the pattern of language use institutionally adopted by the college”, says the retraction.

The so-called neutral language emerged with the intention of representing non-binary people, who do not identify with either the male or the female gender. Its use gained space in environments such as social networks. In this language, the word “todos”, for example, can be replaced by “todos”.

The school points out in the statement that the video was not scheduled to be shown to students, it is not part of the didactic material and was only shown by the teacher with the purpose of complementing the content of one of its classrooms.

In a note to the Panel, the college claims to be “a democratic space for harmonious and friendly coexistence among all, respecting the plurality that exists in society and welcoming all diversity”.

About what happened, he states that “language is a vast and fluid terrain, which adapts, over time, to sociocultural changes that dictate new configurations” and that he understands that, at present, there are manifestations that use neutral language.

“We defend, however, that any type of modification and update should be discussed by specialists, without being imposed. As with the journalistic textual standard —of which the Sheet is an important symbol—, Dante, based on the pedagogy guidelines currently in force in the country, uses the standard norm of the Portuguese language in his classes”, concludes the note.

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