Another demonstration took place on Saturday afternoon against the sex education package Evras from French-language education. The protest now appears to be subsiding with only 200 people showing up to express their grievances. No incidents took place.
Evras stands for “education à la vie relationnelle, affective et sexuelle”. The Evras Decree of the French Community government requires a total of four hours of sex education in the sixth grade and the fourth grade in French-speaking schools. It is up to the schools how they fill in those teaching hours. Only the obligation of the Evras teaching hours is new.
However, the plans have already provoked fierce protests and even led to arson at several Walloon schools. Several demonstrations against the new decree have already taken place in Brussels, although the protest now seems to have passed its peak. While the protests could gather 2,000 people in mid-September, they were limited to around 200 demonstrators on Saturday. The Brussels Capital-Ixelles police zone confirmed this.
The poor turnout for the latest demonstration may have to do with the fact that the required cooperation agreement for the introduction of the Evras decree is now a fact. The Walloon Region, the French Community and the French Community Commission (CoCof) have already given the green light.
This article is originally published on bruzz.be
