Re: Fact or Fiction?
I was only asking because the same doesn't apply here - Over here, religious expression is limited by loopholes which basically mean in theory we can teach what we like in religious schools but the reality is the school will be shut down for saying certain things to the pupils - like the divinity of God or Jesus...you can sing some cute little songs, but you cannot teach it as a truth because it may offend non-Christian pupils. Which begs the question why in the world their parents signed up for a religious school when they do not share the same ethos...
Actually, only Christian schools are limited in this way - the government won't touch Islamic schools, for example, for fear of being accused of discrimination, racism and anything else which may apply. You are allowed to teach vague ideas and morals which society as a whole, religious or otherwise, upholds but nothing specific or spiritual. The Catholic schools may engage in Communion, but only if the pupils agree to be confirmed first, as per their religious teachings...otherwise communion may not be taken.
It didn't used to be this way, but times changed in accordance with, it would appear, 9/11. Before then, Christian schools only enrolled pupils from that faith, or at least from families who could prove they went regularly to a church and were backed up by their pastor or whoever. But now they have to allow a multitude of faiths in and therefore have been restricted in what they can teach and say.
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