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The judge of the 5th Civil Court, Airton Pinheiro, condemned the Municipality of Natal to pay BRL 5,000 for pain and suffering, a student who pooped in his pants after hearing the teacher three negative to go to the bathroom during class. The decision was published in the Journal of Justice. The teacher appealed the decision. The boy's mother, who was 11 at the time, filed the lawsuit after the constant constraints suffered by the child in school, which ended up causing the loss of the school year of it, beyond the need for psychological counseling for a year and a half. According to the lawyer Guilherme Martins de Melo, "the boy studying in 6th grade and failed a grade, he had to change shifts and then changed his school. He felt chills when he entered the school." In one of the hearings, the teacher reported that only realized the seriousness of the problem after the student out of the classroom and see feces in his wallet. The judge cites in its decision...

Teachers: street protests and empty classrooms Two months ago the teachers of public schools of São Paulo stopped their activities claiming salary increase and career plan. After several negotiations between the teachers' sindicate and the Secretary of Education, both sides reached a consensus and signed an agreement on the salary increase and changes in the hiring regime and tenders for years to come. However, most teachers didn't joined the agreement. The vast majority of these professionals are members of political movements of left and are making opposition to the party that currently governs São Paulo. Ie, they are using the strike as a political weapon to damage the image of the State government and are ditching the commitment to education of young people. Currently they make riots every Friday on Avenida Paulista, disrupting traffic in the region and preventing the passage of pedestrians on the streets. Since the beginning of the strike, hundreds of th...