- Target:
- The Victorian state minister for education, Mr Martin Dixon
- Region:
- Australia
- Website:
- religionsinschool.com
Officially, SRI is taught on an opt-out basis in Victorian primary schools. If a parent does not want their child to attend SRI, the child can be removed from the class but this effectively punishes the child by refusing to allow him or her to receive any other form of (secular) education while other students are undergoing SRI.
The Department’s guidelines make it clear that secular instruction may not be timetabled while students from the class are attending special religious instruction.
For more information, see the FIRIS website: http://religionsinschool.com
We, the undersigned, call on the Victorian state government to review the policies which pertain to the provision of special religious instruction in state schools.
In particular we disapprove of the discriminatory treatment of students whose parents choose to opt out of special religious instruction.
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The Reform special religious instruction in Victorian state schools petition to The Victorian state minister for education, Mr Martin Dixon was written by Stephen Mc Ateer and is in the category Education at GoPetition.