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Religious Education or Back Door Proselytizing?

October 5, 2022 Dave 1

Sara Passmore, Vice-President of the New Zealand Society of Rationalists and Humanists, raises concerns with the government about the potential for back-door religious instruction when planning a curriculum for religious education without input from non-religious people.

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Opaheke School BOT Consider Religious Instruction

February 12, 2020 Dave 10

Opaheke School’s Board of Trustees is about to make a decision on whether or not to allow religious instruction to remain in the school. A very fuzzy community vote is meant to inform them on what parents want but it’s got issues and has nothing to do with the motivations behind religious instruction.