Insegnamento religioso: la Corte Suprema dichiara illegale l’IR incentrato sul cristiano insegnato nelle scuole NI
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Insegnamento religioso: la Corte Suprema dichiara illegale l’IR incentrato sul cristiano insegnato nelle scuole NI
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c201qqq0n61t
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Didn’t realise this was a thing in NI, down in our neck of the woods we got the type of RE lessons where you learned about all different kind of religions (and sounds like NI will be getting).
While I quickly worked out I wanted nothing to do with any of them, it was quite interesting and it teaches you about various different customs/festivals etc
I remember we watched a documentary about Buddhism and it used scenes from a film where Keanu Reeves was the Buddha!
“The father and daughter who took the case were also challenging collective worship – things like school assemblies – as well as how RE is taught.” I wonder if this will spill over into the rest of the UK. Schools in England have a requirement to provide collective worship.
[“Subject to section 71, each pupil in attendance at a community, foundation or voluntary school shall on each school day take part in an act of collective worship”](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/section/70)
Worth noting that this was also about collective worship, not just RE. The page mentions it in a few places, but the headline doesn’t.
It will be interesting to see if this ruling is extended to the rest of the country – particularly the requirement for daily, Christian school prayers in England.
The lower courts agreed that
> …religious education and collective worship in the School were not conveyed in an objective, critical, and pluralistic manner…
… which the Supreme Court felt was equivalent to indoctrination. And while there was a right to withdraw students from the religious education and school prayers, that “was capable of placing an undue burden on the parents” so was insufficient.
The ECHR rights violated were A2P1 [right to education] read with Article 9 [freedom of thought, conscience and religion].
The Supreme Court’s page for the case is [here](https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2024-0095), complete with the judgment and press summaries in various formats.
A ruling like this is desperately needed in England as well.
In my area, only 10% of the population report they are Catholic, yet the local Catholic school holds a monopoly on education.
RE is nothing more than bible study. No other religion ever gets a mention. They have prayer liturgy, Catholic based school assembly, something called “hell Mary’s”, weekly mass and pray morning, lunchtime and end of the day. Even their school trips are to the local church.
Even science is taught within the doctrine of Catholic mythology.
It’s too much.
To be honest – I wouldn’t necessarily mind if this was applied everywhere in the UK.
I say that as a Christian who would love for my kids to grow up to know and love Jesus.
I don’t need to outsource that to schools though, I can teach my kids about the gospel at home and at church and would probably do it in a way that I would be happy with.
Learning about other religions and particular beliefs in a comparative religion manner is more suitable for schools.
We shouldbgetbrid of RE education entirely and replace it with something useful.
The thing is even with a varied curriculum, a lot of schools default to Christianity. My school hired exclusively Christian teachers who preached through the lessons and we only learned the other Abrahamic religions for contrast.
Studying religions beyond Christianity is a obviously delivering kids a better education, but the idea that not doing so constitutes a human rights violation is plainly ridiculous. What a farce case law is turning the HRA into.
There should be no religious schools. They should all be secular.
Im my catholic secondary we did the same, shit was interesting. Of course the majority of our lessons were catholic focused but we learnt alot about loads of different religions.