Brazil’s classrooms become a battleground in a culture war
Jair Bolsonaro and his allies crusade against left-leaning teachers
ON OCTOBER 28TH, the day Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election, Ana Caroline Campagnolo, an “anti-feminist” history teacher who had recently been elected a legislator in the southern state of Santa Catarina, sent out a message on Facebook. “Attention students!” she wrote. “Many doctrinaire teachers will be disconcerted or revolted” by the election of Mr Bolsonaro, a politician of the right. “Film or record all partisan manifestations that ... offend your freedom of thought or conscience,” she urged.
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