Eltern stehen vor Hürden, wenn es darum geht, ihre Kinder in katholischen Grundschulen von der Religionszugehörigkeit abzuhalten

We need to remove religion from all schools that receive public funds.

State indoctrination of ancient Middle Eastern folklore. 🙃

>send child to religious school

>complain about child receiving religious education

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a Catholic school teaching Catholic ethos

There is also nothing wrong with parents wanting their child to go to a school without a Religious ethos or denomination

I still believe Religion has a purpose in schools. If only to help kids better understand the world and it’s many cultures and traditions, and not necessarily as something to believe in

More click bait.

In practice there is no issue with opting out.

I don’t know how much of a difference it makes. Like most of us I went to a Catholic primary & secondary school, as did all of my family, and despite that, I don’t now nor have I ever believed in any god.

I don’t think it that environment did me any harm though, there are certain virtues that are worth praising, like don’t steal, love thy neighbour etc. I think it was probably good for me to be in a situation where these moral values were put on a pedestal, even if it was in a religious setting.

My point being I don’t think sending your kids to a Catholic school would really have much of an influence on whether or not they become devout Christians, I think that family & home environment is far more influential there.

Weve been looking at schools in recent months and mentioned opting out of religion. The Catholic schools had no issues at all with it, our local protestant school however were not impressed, we were told that the prayers are lovely and that Catholicism and protestantism are the same really (the school presumed we were catholic because im irish)

I almost couldn’t start school in my primary school cause I was never baptised. My parents told me they had to essentially beg them to let me in.

https://teachdontpreach.ie/

Lot of informations about your legal rights and sample letters to opt out at the link.

I’m about to send my daughter to school in September and I’m concerned about how opting out will work.

I went to a multi-denominational school and was not raised Catholic. My husband went to a Catholic school and his family are religious.

We live in a rural area so our options are limited. We’re sending our daughter to a Catholic school and opting her out of religion classes. We went to the school open day recently and the religious ethos was immediately obvious to me through the children’s artwork displayed on the walls (lots of shepherds and sheep, first holy communion stuff, etc). Nothing wrong with that, that’s the ethos, no problem there. It was sweet. But what struck me when talking to my husband was that he didn’t even see it – it’s just like background noise to him.

Likewise, when I asked the principal how opting out would work, he was a bit loosey goosey – it was all a bit “ah sure we won’t make her sit out in the hall, it’ll all be grand, and sure isn’t it all the same now anyway”. I didn’t love it because I’d prefer clearer boundaries around what is and is not religious instruction, so my daughter doesn’t get confused. It concerns me that, like my husband, many of the educators may not even really notice when something is religious, because they’re just so used to it.

Why are schools still under religious patronage? Even new schools that are 100% paid for by the tax payer on land acquired by the tax payer are then handed over to the church to run. Make this make sense in 2026?

When will people learn that religion is one of the reasons people die globally for hundreds of years. Forcing it unto children is like forcing one’s opinion over others.