The Salvadoran government has banned all content related to gender ideology from the country’s public school system, Education Minister José Mauricio Pineda announced this week.
“We have confirmed: We have removed all use and traces of gender ideology from our public schools,” Pineda said. Said he said in a social media post Wednesday, without providing further details.
The minister made this confirmation shortly after his office issued a statement. Clarification It said on social media this week that the gender ideological content inserted into the curriculum by the previous government no longer appears in schools’ “guides, books and other educational materials.” The clarification was issued in response to a local group known as Salvadoras Against Gender Ideology, which claimed that children were being taught gender ideological content in schools.
Following Minister Pineda’s announcement, El Salvador’s newspapers la prensa graphica report The government announced on Thursday that it had obtained a copy of a memorandum issued by El Salvador’s Ministry of Education, in which Pineda emphasized that the ministry had established a position on gender ideology in 2022.
In the memorandum, Mr. Pineda stated:
All educational materials and programs, educational resources, lesson plans, textbooks, administrative documents, websites, study guides, multimedia objects, and other related documents do not contain or imply this ideology. Care has been taken to ensure that there are no hidden objects, and that they are completely separated from the work. of this ministry.
The Minister called on board members, administrators, principals and other staff to be “considerate of the holistic education of students” and said that “to avoid punitive measures that could lead to academic suspension, “We asked them to comply with the regulations regarding the content of the content.” It performs its functions in accordance with due process. ”
Last week, President Nayib Bukele touched on the subject of gender ideology while participating in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Catalina Stubbe, Hispanic coordinator for the organization Moms for Liberty, said: Asked to him about it. Bukele called the practice of teaching children gender ideology an “attempt to destroy future generations.”
“It is important not to introduce things like gender ideology into the curriculum,” Bukele told Stubbe. “Parents should be informed and have a say in what their children learn.”
“I think it’s important to bring God back into schools, bring back morals and civics, and learn traditional things like math and history,” he continued. “No one is against modernization. What we are against is the introduction of unnatural ideologies, anti-God, anti-family, that have no place in our schools.”
Mariana Moyza, president of the Salvadoran Offensive Feminists collective, condemned the removal of the content, claiming it would cause “discrimination against women and LGBTIQ+ people.”
“First of all, we are talking about discriminatory policies against us, because it is part of a policy that eliminates loopholes that give us the possibility of avoiding sexual violence, for example, through comprehensive education on sexuality,” Moysa said. said. Said local media. “On the other hand, this is a denial of gender-based violence, and we see that government officials are the ones who perpetrate symbolic violence, and we see that expression against other women as well.”
