RodISHI
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Apparently some people over there believe parents and students should be mandated to learn about religion and the right of refusal should be removed.
.......The research, carried out by Liverpool Hope University and published in the British Journal of Religious Education (RE) today, found that 41% of school leaders interviewed had received requests for students to be withdrawn from teaching about one religion.
By far the largest number of these requests related to teaching about Islam. As one participant stated: "students that have been removed are the ones that need to understand different cultures the most".
Earlier this year members of a local education body in Essex blamed "integration issues" on a rise in such withdrawals.
The study's authors Dr Cathal O'Siochru and Dr David Lundie have compiled the first hard data on the process of parents taking their children out of RE classes in this country.
They found that 71% of the 450 headteachers and heads of RE surveyed think the withdrawal element of the 1944 Education Act is "no longer required".
The right was included in the 75-year-old law to protect the rights of conscience of religious minorities from being forced to receive Christian religious instruction.........
Law allowing parents to withdraw children from RE education should be overturned
.......The research, carried out by Liverpool Hope University and published in the British Journal of Religious Education (RE) today, found that 41% of school leaders interviewed had received requests for students to be withdrawn from teaching about one religion.
By far the largest number of these requests related to teaching about Islam. As one participant stated: "students that have been removed are the ones that need to understand different cultures the most".
Earlier this year members of a local education body in Essex blamed "integration issues" on a rise in such withdrawals.
The study's authors Dr Cathal O'Siochru and Dr David Lundie have compiled the first hard data on the process of parents taking their children out of RE classes in this country.
They found that 71% of the 450 headteachers and heads of RE surveyed think the withdrawal element of the 1944 Education Act is "no longer required".
The right was included in the 75-year-old law to protect the rights of conscience of religious minorities from being forced to receive Christian religious instruction.........
Law allowing parents to withdraw children from RE education should be overturned