184. Islamic Religion in Italian Schools?

Our schools have given a kick in the rear to religion.

You can’t deny Christianity to children in schools.

The following images come from Schools where I taught in Great Britain.

What on earth made the right wing MP come up with proposing the teaching of Islamic religion in Italian schools so as to better further integration between people?  Have we really gone right out of our heads?

If thanks to the left wing, by whose hands the majority of the public education system is manoeuvred, has given a kick in the rear to teaching of the catholic faith in our schools up to the point that our kids have no idea who Jesus Christ is, let alone what the Sermon of the Mount is, even less what it means, how can the right wing parliamentary propose that schools should also occupy themselves in teaching a religion which has nothing to do with our natural Christian roots? 

The catholic school of St Alphonsus London where the day began with a prayer.

Some powers that be of the education system have made it so that religion is reduced to an insignificant subject, of little worth, without marks or merit, without obligation to attend, after having stripped teachers of religion the right to allocate a mark thus placing them in an inferior position to other teachers in the same institution.  I ask myself, is this the right to knowledge, by taking it away? I ask myself, is this equality and right to education, by being denied it?

The crucifix or a sacred image is exposed in every catholic classroom in Great Britain. St Andrew’s school, Linwood, Scotland.

The results of all this being that Italian children have been robbed of a basis in religion that in other countries like Great Britain, where I have taught, considers the teaching of religion as one of the main duties of a school be it of Anglican, Catholic, Jewish, or whatever domination, private or state.  Religion is taught as a fundamental and principal subject of the National Curriculum.  But here in Italy, even if there is a school curriculum, who knows of its existence? So one can imagine what state these schools are in.

Hillary Street State School, Walsall, although not a catholic school, there is a place for religion.

Before thinking of teaching other cultures, the Italian school has the duty first to respect the religious origins of this country, which we have inherited from our ancestors.  And then, do we not need to even give a slight glance at the blood spilt by our martyrs so that we could be given this inheritance?

Religion is a fundamental subject in English schools.  I was the drama coordinator with which I integrated  the teaching of religion at this school: St Edmund’s Manchester.

To have the freedom to practise one’s faith is a sacred right of all, but everyone in their own abode.  When the Islamic world starts to teach the catholic faith in their schools, for the better integration of peoples, then we can talk about it.  But until then, there’s a saying here in Italy- get the horse moving as the procession is clotting. (Referring to religious processions which jammed)

Me with the headmistress of St Andrew’s, Linwood, Scotland at the end of term pic-nic