Pledge to join RCE Quality Assurance System
This is the proposed Pledge for educational environments joining the Rights-Centric Education Alliance (to avoid unwieldy pages, the content is sectioned into multiple pages):
On behalf of the Children whose Rights I/We have a Voluntary/Mandatory obligation to Respect, I/We pledge My/Our commitment to overhaul Practices relating to Education, Discipline/Justice, and/or Care of Children applicable in My/Our environment in order to support the fullest possible realization of the Rights of Child, including, inter alia
- Art 29 1 "The Aims of Education"
- Art 12 "The Right to be Heard"
- Art 8 “The Right to an Identity”
- Art 13 "Freedom of Expression"
- Art 14 “Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion”
- There's pending work in Unclassified Pledge Content (will not be easy to make sense of)
Furthermore, recognizing that the Rights-Centric Education Reporting Mechanism fulfills the requirements of “a rights-based quality assurance system (including school self-evaluation and development planning) for education in general”, the creation of which was approved by the United Nations General Assemby in 2005, I/We pledge to periodically Report, preferably annually but no later than 24 months from the date of My/Our last Report,
- The extent to which Child Rights are currently Respected and Fulfilled in the Education, Discipline/Justice and/or Care settings I have responsibility for, especially with regards to the above-mentioned commitments; and
- An evaluation of the steps taken towards Respecting and Fulfilling Rights since the last Report (or, in the case of the first Report, all steps taken in the past); and
- A plan outlining the steps to be taken before the next Report.
Signatories can be:
- Parents / Guardians who are fulfilling their responsibility, right and duty to provide appropriate direction and guidance to their Child/ren in the exercise by their Child Rights (Art. 5 of CRC)
- Independent educational institutions (Established pursuant to Art. 29 2 of CRC), who commit to act in loco parentis vis a vis Art. 5
- State institutions providing Education, Justice and/or Care services to Children, who are obliged under the CRC to respect, protect, and strive to fulfill the Rights of Children
