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Subject: Re: UK and Poland, religious instruction under attack
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:53:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:03:02 +0200, RunTime 🇵🇱® wrote:

> W dniu 2025-04-24 o 02:28, andal pisze:
>> In the United Kingdom various associations are complaining that
>> religious instruction is being neglected. There is a shortage of
>> teachers (recruitment ceased in 2011) and the new Labour government
>> does not seem intent on remedying this. While in Poland, the Church is
>> appealing against the Tusk government's changes aimed at marginalising
>> religious instruction.
>> 
>> The social-labourists of the United Kingdom and the liberal-socialists
>> of Poland are discriminating against the Catholic religion and
>> attacking the Christian memory of their countries, in the name of a
>> suicidal secularism and an alleged ‘non-discrimination’ that
>> marginalises, penalises and discriminates only against Christian
>> believers and in particular Catholics.
>> 
>> The new Education Secretary of the British Labour government has been
>> asked in recent days to seriously address the issue of Religious
>> Education (RE) in schools. The National Association of Teachers of
>> Religious Education (NATRE) has warned the government that ‘religious
>> education is the most neglected subject in terms of resources’, despite
>> a growing interest on the part of pupils and an increase in pupils
>> aspiring to obtain the General Certificate of Secondary Education
>> (GCSE) in Religious Studies (Rs), specific courses to be able to later
>> also teach religion. Earlier this year, Ofsted, the public agency
>> overseeing school education, warned that a number of schools in England
>> would fail to meet the legal requirement to teach religious education
>> in all classes.
>> 
>> English law requires that the curriculum provides for religious
>> instruction in state-funded schools, while not specifically teaching a
>> religion, must reflect the fact that ‘religious traditions in Britain
>> are primarily Christian’.
>> 
>> Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Sir Martyn Oliver, had
>> already reminded us last April of the need for a ‘robust religious
>> education curriculum’ for the cultural development of pupils and the
>> future cohesion of the country. The increased interest of families and
>> pupils in religious instruction, and the Labour government's
>> corresponding silence in hiring new religious education teachers,
>> prompted various associations to launch an appeal to ask the executive
>> for a National Plan that would enhance religious instruction and
>> teachers in this subject. Bridget Phillipson, Education Secretary,
>> pledged last July to recruit 6,500 new teachers by 2024, but made no
>> mention of increasing the number of religious education teachers, whose
>> recruitment has been at a standstill since 2011. The Labour
>> government's plans are well outlined in the election programme:
>> ‘Increased access to sports and arts education, along with a strong
>> literacy and numeracy core, plus the introduction of a new focus on
>> digital skills, speaking and listening skills’.
>> 
>> Religious instruction, so necessary if it emphasised the country's
>> Christian roots, appears, however, neither tolerated by the new social-
>> liberal Labourism, nor by that Islamist part of the electorate that
>> allowed Prime Minister Keir Starmer to win with a large majority.
>> 
>> Donald Tusk's Poland is striding along the same perilous path, that of
>> writing a new page in the country's history, cutting off its religious
>> roots and traditions in the name of an abused freedom, secularism and
>> non- discrimination of others.
>> 
>> In the Polish educational system, religious instruction usually
>> consists of teaching the Catholic catechism, with teachers and
>> programmes chosen by the Church, but the lessons are hosted and
>> financed by State schools, and are widely attended even if they remain
>> optional. On 22 March, the Minister of Education, Barbara Nowacka, had
>> removed the marks obtained in religion lessons from pupils' final
>> grades. According to the Tusk government's August amendments, when
>> fewer than seven pupils express a wish to receive religious
>> instruction, schools would be authorised to reduce religion classes by
>> merging them with pupils from different year groups, with the danger of
>> marginalising religious instruction and reducing the number of
>> teachers.
>> 
>> In mid-August, the Catholic Church and the Polish Ecumenical Council,
>> which represents minority Christian denominations, had asked the
>> President of the Supreme Court, Małgorzata Manowska, to submit a motion
>> to the Constitutional Tribunal to verify the constitutionality of the
>> changes. On 30 August, the constitutional judges issued an interim
>> order suspending the government's planned changes to the organisation
>> of religious instruction in schools. In recent days, the President of
>> the Republic, Andrzej Duda, has warned the governing liberal-socialist
>> coalition that removing the teaching of religion from school education
>> ‘would remove an inalienable part of being Polish’ and of the nation's
>> historical and popular traditions, which cannot be renounced.
> 
> And?

.... get your crap somewhere else