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I I I l By the late eighties, the government haa become alarmed at the rising moral decadence and crime in Britain, Britain, and realising that a whole generation of youth was growing up without any basic understanding of its Christian heritage and culture culture and the ethical input of its historical religion. As Dart of its Educational Reforms Reforms an Act of Parliament was passed in 1988. This specifically states that Religious Religious Education is to be a compulsory part of all children's children's education while in state controlled schools. Parents Parents retain the right to withdraw withdraw their children from such lessons. All state schools, too, are to have times for collective worship. The new Act of Parliament has been implemented since last September. Within the Act is a specific reference to Religious Education and Collective Worship being largely Christian in character, character, and it is hoped that the mish-mash in what passed for Religious Education in recent years, and its demise on the school curriculum, will only relate to the decline decline of the last twenty years. Yours sincerely, Tony Knight (Ex Head of Religious Studies) Van Belle Floral Shoppes ...much more than a flower store! |4SIOnC9 • Ughwiy No. 2 • King Si, W„ Othiwi • Slmco* St.N., Ofhiwi • IMDundu in. W,, wTRui Whhby QUALITY M€ATS If Concdo Grado 22 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, August 8,1990 Letter Writer Blames Lack Of Religion For Problems In England 43 Hazeleigh Avenue, Woolston, Southampton, England Dear Sir/Madam: In correspondence from friends who reside in Ontario, Ontario, I have recently been asked what happens about the teaching of Religious Education Education in State controlled Schools in England in contemporary contemporary society, which has increasingly become secular secular and pluralist in the last twenty or so years. The question has been addressed to me because, until my recent recent retirement, I have been Head of Religious Education at a large Comprehensive School in my city for twenty- foiir years. In 1944 a far-sighted Education Education Act was passed which stated that each school day should begin with an act of worship, and that children in state schools were to receive religious instruction instruction based on a local authority syllabus as part of their curriculum. Needless to say, such syllabuses were totally 'Christian' in character, character, since adherents to other world faiths were hardly represented in England, and Humanists groups were poorly organized. The situation situation I have described could basically be found in most schools into the seventies - there were daily assemblies with prayers, hymns and readings from - or based on - the Bible. In the 1970's education in England underwent a number number of changes including raising the minimum leav : ing from lj5 to 16 years. There was a great deal of pandering to present whims, such as preparation for a vocation, vocation, making sure that pupils pupils were adequately fitted for the technological and scientific scientific age etc. Such objectives, objectives, laudable as they are, put a great strain on fitting new syllabuses and subjects into an already full curriculum. curriculum. But this was a decade when educationalists and the notion of schooldays being being an 'education for life' were being dictated to by the world of commerce and sectional interests. The 'queen of sciences' (another name for Religious Education) Education) was becoming Cinderella Cinderella and marginalized in the School Curriculum, in an endeavour to find time for the new technology. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, the response of the. Religious Education hierarchy was to introduce courses in 'World Religions' as a way to try and retain customers in a changing market. 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