Los códigos de convivencia escolares en colisión con el libre desarrollo de la personalidad.

Abstract

School regulations in Ecuador for the most part include rules that limit the physical appearance of the students, threatening with sanctions that go from disciplinary, academic to even physical ones. This norms regulate the hair length, its color, nail style and color, tattoos, piercings, etc. These restrictive rules limit the possibility of the student to develop and express their personalities freely, instead favoring the null expression of traits that differentiate students from one another as unique individuals. These measures we believe infringe each student’s right to a free development of their personality, students which receive constant acts of repression in the case of not abiding to them, even going as far as to denying them the access to an education and degrading treatments endorsed by the school regulations and the school authorities. At present the right to a free development of personality is hardly developed at all in the Ecuadorian law system, situation that has led to the authorities at the ministry of education and even the judicial system to be spectators of the problem without taking any action about it, perpetuating the violation the student’s rights, students that being minors should be protected with priority.