INITIATIVE FOR [THE] CHOICE
The government in Luxembourg is proposing to eliminate the teaching of religion in schools. Please read the text below, taken from the Initiative for Choice website. On the site you can find pdf leaflets and pdf petition forms, and also register your own support for this initiative to preserve choice in having religion taught in school. It is important to defend this choice.
“Initiative « For the choice»
Religious education or moral and social education
As parents and supporters we demand that the choice between religious education and moral and social education are maintained in public schools.
The current guaranteed free choice is an expression of mutual respect and a vibrant democracy. Unity is created in diversity and not through the standardisation of the expected state value education.
Religious education should continue to be part of that choice. Schools must ensure the support and training of young people in their search for meaning. This is why they are responsible for transmitting an integral education not only based on limited information as well as for ensuring the quality of this education.
Values are never neutral. Therefore, the State has no right to monopolise the definition of values. Parents, their children and young people must retain the right to participate in a decision that directly affects them at the level of their existential questions!”
