San Marino. One of Us: “A school-family co-responsibility pact”
“A school-family co-responsibility pact”
This is the proposal that comes fromOne of Us Association.
Guided by this title, there were many people who on Friday evening, 20 January, braving the polar cold and the ongoing snow alert, left their homes to go to the Montelupo Room and participate in the public evening organized by the Uno di Noi Association . The event, sponsored by the Secretariat of State for Justice and the Family, began with a welcome message from the President of the Cultural Association, who underlined how this initiative follows the Arengo Instance of which the Association has promoted the introduction, also in San Marino, of the “prior informed consent of parents” whenever curricular and extra-curricular activities are included in their children’s school programs which pertain to sensitive educational topics (relating to the ethical, sexual, affective and religious), to safeguard the freedom of education of parents, in line with the educational primacy of the family recognized by article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and by our family law. The emergency is confirmed by the law n. 127 of 7 September 2022, which, although having abortion as its object, in art. 3 entitled “prevention of unwanted pregnancies and sex education”, has seriously undermined this educational primacy. Next, with Prof. Gabriele Raschi, a San Marino professor as well as a member of the San Marino Bioethics Committee, as moderator, was attended by two illustrious speakers: Father Giorgio Maria Carbone and Dr. Giusy D’Amico. The first, in spite of the cassock, used scientific arguments and empirical evidence to demonstrate, also through the projection of slides and photos, how and when human life is formed, how sexuality is chromosomal, gonadal, phenotypic and psychological, for which it cannot be reduced to a simple, yet changeable, perception of oneself, almost as if the body does not identify us but is simply something we possess (and which we can therefore modify at will, in the illusion, artfully induced by who speculate on the so-called “gender transitions”, of being able to be something else). The ideology of “gender” denies the difference and natural reciprocity of man and woman, envisages a society without sex differences, empties the anthropological basis of the family, induces educational projects and legislative guidelines that promote personal identity and intimacy affective radically detached from the biological diversity between male and female. Human identity is thus handed over to an individualistic option, which can also change over time. Father Carbone underlined how not educating young people to beauty, to truth, to accepting human reality for what it is, leads to the construction of ghosts or constructs for which the female human being and the male human being are constructions culture and not of reality data. One of Us Association, Via G. Battistani n. 17 Serravalle www.unodinoirsm.org – [email protected] The second, in a complementary way to the intervention that preceded it, instead addressed a heartfelt invitation so that among the parents, too often disinterested in the education of their children and ready to delegate it to others, a strong collaboration and comparison arises, capable of creating effective forms of co-responsibility with the school within the collegial school institutions responsible for this and beyond. Dr. D’Amico reported the positive and recent Italian experience of the Associazione Non si Tocca la Famiglia of which she is President, which she obtained from the MIUR, with the active help of parents who are united and aware of their educational primacy, a Circular which, as required by the Arengo Instance, provides for the prior informed consent of the latter, for all activities not related to the compulsory courses (such as Italian, science, history or geography, etc.) on ethically sensitive. Of course, these also include those on one’s sexual identity, which if presented without distinction to a class without taking into account the delicate and tormented path of personal maturation of each one, risk generating uncertainty, bewilderment, non-acceptance of oneself in our children, to the point of inducing phenomena of self-harm or requests (early and irreversible) to take puberty inhibitors as a viaticum for gender transition, with the complicity of paid media campaigns that make it appear like a simple walk, thus hiding billionaire businesses. Then the letter from a mother to whom Giusy D’Amico read at the end of the evening was moving. From the letter it was possible to perceive the concreteness and topicality of the emergency: beyond (falsely) ideological battles, of governments that are subsidized by pharmaceutical groups in the world to adopt legislation in their favor, by sponsored influencers who advertise the transitions of gender, then there are boys and girls in the flesh, our children, who go through deep, real dramas, and put a strain on the educational role of parents.