Santo Domingo.- In times where the models of conduct HE build more on social networks that in classrooms, the Ministry of Education He has made a decision that, although it may seem a return to the past, represents a bold step towards the future: The formal reinstatement of the subject of Civic and Citizen Ethics to the School Curriculum.
Yes, in the midst of the debate on Infrastructure, technology and coverage, Morality returns to the center of the educational discussion. And it is not about nostalgia, but about a specific response to a reality that hits us every day: young people disconnected from the notion of dutyof respect for the other and the basic principles of coexistence.
Back to the essential: Education is committed to rescuing morals and civic from early childhood
The announcement was made on Wednesday, after a meeting headed by the president Luis Abinader and officials of the Ministry of Educationin which it was also confirmed that Children from three years They can be integrated into the public school system from next school year 2025-2026, which begins on August 25.
The Ordinance 02-2025which formalizes the return of Moral and civic, It is not only a curricular amendment, but a declaration of principles: Form citizens, not just technicians. Make the classroom a space where ethics is not learned by accident, but by design.
The Minister Luis Miguel de Camps It was emphatic in stating that education cannot be neutral before the crisis of values that the country is going through. “We are not educating to approve evidence, but to build a society,” he said.
Form citizens, not only students: the commitment to school ethics
This bet does not come alone. The inclusion of infants since the age of three, which will imply A 30 % increase in student registrationis accompanied by an unprecedented investment in infrastructure.
According to the director of school infrastructure, Roberto Herrera614 new classrooms have already been delivered and this week another 42 will be inaugurated in the La Altagracia province. The goal is clear: 1,100 classrooms ready before the start of the school year.
But the most transcendent is not the cement blocks, but The moral block that is sought to rebuild. Because when in school you learn to respect the other, to take care of the common already tell the truth even if it hurts, a citizenship that does not fit statistics, but that can change a country, begins to weave.
Teach again Moral and civic From childhood It is not an ideological luxurybut a national urgency. And in that decision, perhaps more than any other, the True future of Dominican education
