A campaign for secular education
Our new submission to the NCCA on Religious Education – please make your own submission tomorrow
The NCCA is accepting submissions on a new specification for second level Religious Education. You can read below a joint submission made by Michael Nugent and Jane Donnelly of Atheist Ireland, Imam Ibrahim Noonan of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, and Pastor Nick Park of the Evangelical Alliance of ...
Atheist Ireland is still receiving queries from parents regarding the refusal of ETB schools, teachers and principals to implement the Circular Letter on opting out of religion issued by the Department of Education last February. When we met the Department of Education about this last year, the Department confirmed to ...
ETB Schools and teachers that refuse to implement the directive on religion issued by the Department of Education last February are telling parents that they can’t opt their child out of Religious Education and choose another subject. Their main excuses are to claim that the directive refers only to Religious ...
ETB schools are trying to evade the Department of Education directive to give students an alternative subject to religion, by claiming that the directive applies only to Religious Instruction and not to the State course in Religious Education. But what is referred to in Ireland as Religious Education is known ...
For some reason, some ETBs and the Catholic Church believe that the Section 9 of the Education Act obliges them to promote the moral and spiritual of all children through religion. They equate the word ‘spiritual’ in Section 9 with religion, and have simply jumped to conclusions from that. This ...
The European Court has said that not respecting parents convictions in the education system is pursuing an aim of indoctrination. One of the main aims of the State Religious Education course is to contribute to the moral and spiritual of all students through religion. Contributing to the moral and spiritual ...
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) is reviewing Relationships and Sexuality Education in primary and post-primary schools. Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the review. Please feel free to incorporate our arguments into your own submission if you are making one. Atheist Ireland Submission to the ...
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