Department of Education is undermining a foundational pillar of the Constitution
Syllabus Religious Education was introduced into second level schools in 2000. It is an exam subject at junior and Leaving Certificate level. The Department of Education, the NCCA, teachers and schools as well as the TUI all claim that syllabus Religious Education is suitable for all religions and those with ...
Department of Education writes to Public Accounts Committee re Atheist Ireland report
This is a letter from the Department of Education to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee on 25 March 2022, in response to Atheist Ireland’s complaint to the Public Accounts Committee. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-03-29_dept-of-ed-to-pac.pdf" title="2022-03-29_dept of ed to pac"]
State ignores fundamental Constitutional conditions for funding schools
The vast majority of schools in Ireland are publicly funded Catholic schools. Under the Constitution the State can fund Catholic schools under certain conditions. The Constitutional conditions for this state funding are: That all publicly funded schools must respect the constitutional right of parents in relation to the religious and moral ...
Parents have a Constitutional right to decide the religious and moral education of their children
The recent Burke v Minister for Education case at the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional rights of parents in relation to the religious and moral education and formation of their children. The Supreme Court referred particularly to the provision in Article 42.4 of the Constitution which obliges the state ...
Multi-denominational schools are multi-religious, not inclusive
If the Catholic Church divests a school to a Community National School, it is divesting from one type of religious school (a denominational school) to a different type of religious school (a multi-denominational school.) Atheism, humanism, and secularism are not denominations. The term denominational is a religious designation. Multi-denominational means ...
State to pay Catholic Church rent for school buildings while ignoring rights of parents?
An article in the Irish Times says the Department of Education intends to pay rent to the Catholic Church if it divests to Community National Schools. This means that the Department of Education will be funding the Community National Schools, and paying rent on top of that to the Catholic Church, ...
NCCA writes to Public Accounts Committee re Atheist Ireland report
This is a letter from the NCCA to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee on 8 March 2022, in response to Atheist Ireland's complaint to the Public Accounts Committee. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-03-10_ncca-to-PAC.pdf" title="2022-03-10_ncca to PAC"]