This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Introducing measures for elective Religious Education
We request the Department for Education to develop the frameworks of religious education in schools and to introduce new measures that enable parents to specify aspects of the religious subjects being taught to their children during all school years and to provide optional classes for teaching Islam
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The current national curriculum for religious education compels students from religious minorities to the preferences of the teachers’ associations and the orientations of major communities according to the opinion of local councils, which we consider a discriminatory practise that make our children susceptible to receiving false religious facts that distorts the primary concepts of faith and negatively impact their innate moral values
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The parent of a pupil at a community, foundation or voluntary school already has the right to request that the pupil be excused from all or part of the RE provided by their school.
Decisions about the content of local religious education curriculums are a matter for individual local authorities, not the Government or Parliament, but schools should take account of the teaching and practices of the principal religions represented in Great Britain.
You can find out more about religious education in English schools here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190260/DCSF-00114-2010.pdf
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