Teachers' group calls for end to faith-based lessons [schooldays.ie]
- Published: 24 June 2011
One of Ireland's largest teachers' unions has called for a law that prescribes a "religious spirit" to run though all the work done in primary schools to be dropped.
Presenting at the Forum on Pluralism and Patronage in the Primary Sector yesterday (June 23rd), the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) said the legislation is unfair on parents who do not follow such an ethos and have exempted their children from religious education classes, the Irish Independent reports.
INTO called for Rule 68 of the Rules for National Schools legislation, which dates back to the 1920s, to be abolished.
This mandates that a "religious spirit should inform and vivify the whole work of the school".
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