From: abakus@suanpan.prv   
      
   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.   
      
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