policy

Overview

Current NSW Department of Education and Training policy guidelines for primary schools ban the teaching of any secular based ethics material whatsoever to children who are not attending special religious education (SRE) classes. After banning any educational lessons from being taught to non-religious or minority religious children in this compulsory hour of the school week, they go on to make a special ban against ethics to be taught to these children. The children are deliberately denied an education in ethics. Instead the instruction to school principals is for "minimum supervision", that is, to do the least possible under the law for these children. This is discrimination.