From: andal@andal.org   
      
   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.   
   >   
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