The teacher is now teaching at the Conde de Sao Bento Agricultural Professional School in Santo Tirso and awaits the result of the refusal to the Supreme Administrative Court.
A teacher of Agricultural Sciences at the Gruing Professional School of Rural Development was the target of a disciplinary process after driving sexist and offensive expressions The students, having been sanctioned with a 150 -day suspension.
The teacher challenged the measure in court, but both the Coimbra Administrative and Fiscal Court and the North Central Administrative Court upheld the decision, considering the penalty proportional to the seriousness of the facts.
The episodes date back to the first period of the 2018/2019 school year. In hortofructiculture class, the teacher would have told a 14 or 15 year old student: “You have to go with me to refer my way to the whores.” In another moment, by the school gate, he went to a student with the phrase: “Given a good porn actress. ” In a practical class of the Agricultural Production Technician course, he referred to two students calling them “lesbians”, says.
Faced with these situations, the school board filed a disciplinary proceeding in December 2018, culminating, in July of the following year, with the application of the suspension by the Directorate-General of School Establishments. The teacher resorted hierarchically, but the then Minister of Education rejected the request.
In court, the teacher claimed that the prosecution was too vague, because it did not indicate concrete dates, that the disciplinary report was based on generic statements, without factual support and that the 150 -day suspension was disproportionate. However, the Court of First Instance considered the action unfounded And, under appeal, the judges of the North Central Administrative Court corroborated the decision, maintaining that the prosecution included sufficient elements to guarantee the right of defense.
The judgment underlines that the sanction respects the legal frame of between 60 and 240 days for three infractions and was appropriate to the disciplinary responsibility of the teacher. Although they recognized the absence of disciplinary antecedents as an attenuating factor, the magistrates valued accumulation of infractions as aggravating.
Currently, the teacher is part of the faculty of the Conde de São Bento Agricultural Professional School in Santo Tirso. According to an official source of the Ministry of Education, the teacher appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court in September, awaiting final decision.
