"Clara discrimination." "Obstacles unacceptable." "Contempt for teachers" . These are some of the reasons that the English Episcopal Conference (EEC) provides for the continued decline in students opting for the subject of Religion in Spain. A drop may be described as structural, as in the past decade more than half a million school children no longer eligible for that matter, spending 80% of students in 2004 to 71% this year, according to its own statistics Episcopate. Still, now 3,172,537 students enrolled in the course of a total of 4,470,191.
The situation is worrying, since the decline is becoming more pronounced in Secondary Education (ESO), where for the first time low of 60% acceptance (58.9) and in high school, where as only a minority of that choose the field (42.7%). In Children's (77%) and primary (80%), there is still ample room for hope.
Data provided by the Episcopal Conference in a press release just provide statistical data, and are offered by type of school (Catholic, entered into or state), rather than by type of education (Nursery, Primary, Secondary or high school): you have to dive into the Episcopal web to find and make a small comparison, which shows how the decline has become structural and prospects for improvement are not on the horizon.
Perhaps for this reason, the bishops highlight the brief report " the importance of religious education for new generations, so necessary for the harmonious growth, human, spiritual and religious pupils as young as crucial personal growth" in a situation that the English Church, citing Benedict XVI calls "ugencia education."
" is time to make important decisions for the children, overcoming the difficulties that sometimes apply to religious education" underscore the bishops. Such difficulties include "the null, weak or biased information when enrolling the children, the same contempt that sometimes, it is teachers, hindering the normal development of their business, the transfer of hours of religious instruction in the first hour or last day, thus encouraging students to not attend these classes; the frequent underestimation of the contribution of religion to the education of students. "
These and other situations "cause of discrimination against religious instruction in schools, go against the fundamental rights of parents and undermine the true, peaceful and true human progress, spiritual and religious student" , according to the Episcopate English, which is particularly critical to the Organic Law of Education (LOE), which "locks introduced unacceptable for students to choose in equal opportunities for the teaching of Catholic religion in the various stages of education."
Nevertheless, the Catholic hierarchy thanks to parents and students who "exercise every year, mostly voluntary, their fundamental right to choose Catholic religious and moral education" , the trust, while grateful for the teachers work Religion "in the midst of so many legal, academic and social ." The It concludes by inviting, now starts the period of enrollment, Catholic parents to enroll their children to religion classes. " eliminate God and know that means breaking the circle of knowledge."
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