Parents, not church or state, have the right to provide religious and moral education
The Catholic Bishops wrote to the Dept of Education in 2018, in relation to Circular Letter 0013/2018 issued by the Department of Education. This Circular obliged ETB schools to give students another subject if they exercised their right to not attend religious instruction. It recognised that schools should offer students ...
Public Accounts Committee letter to Atheist Ireland November 2022
The Public Accounts Committee wrote this letter to Atheist Ireland on 22 November 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/S1082-PAC33-Atheist-Ireland-mtg-27.10.2022.pdf" title="S1082 PAC33 Atheist Ireland mtg 27.10.2022"]
How our courts define parents’ rights, and religious education, formation, and instruction
The Department of Education, the NCCA, Patron bodies, schools and teachers define the terms religious education, religious formation and religious instruction according to their own views on the meaning of these terms. Their definitions are not based on case law at the Supreme Court and actually undermines the Constitutional rights ...
The state must protect the constitutional right to not attend religious instruction in schools
The Department of Education interferes in the Constitutional rights of parents through the NCCA second level Religious Education course. This course seeks to develop values in students to enable them to see the relevance of religion to their lives and relationships. When parents seek to exercise their Constitutional right for ...