Sentences with phrase «religious instruction»

The second prerequisite for responsible religious instruction in public education is a strong teaching profession, which can withstand the pressures of organized religion outside the schools and colleges.

The forming of new Islamic families naturally gave rise to the need for religious instruction for the children, and for adults as well.

For those who work in religious organizations, time spent on providing religious instruction or worship may not be counted among these hours.

Released - Time Programs: A Public school program that allows students to be released during school hours for the purpose of receiving religious instruction at off - campus private facilities.

The students spend less than half of the week studying math, reading, science and social studies; most of their class time is spent on religious instruction.

Traditional religious instruction which originated in the early days still exists today in a form which has been little altered through the years.

The above two approaches should not be confused with schools allowing religious instruction classes where students of a particular faith have the opportunity to learn more about their religion.

My greatest objection to the presence of religion in schools is that public schools are supposed to be about providing education for everyone — not religious instruction.

How would their children receive religious instruction along with their regular training?

Neither parent shall expose the child to any other religious instruction.

Under shared or joint legal custody, both parents make legal decisions concerning the health and welfare of the child, including religious instruction, educational training and medical treatment.

Some efforts are made to allow them to be supplemented with off - campus religious instruction.

If you want your children to have religious instruction in school, and prayer, send them to a Christian school.

And they might if the state didn't prohibit religious voucher schools from using religion as a factor in admissions or allow voucher students to opt out of religious instruction.

For example, less than 1 in 10 respondents knew that charter schools may neither charge tuition nor provide religious instruction.

One of the solutions tried was that of released time for religious instruction.

I am LDS and was raised with religious instruction in all the major world religions.

With an Irish Catholic family, older brothers and sisters gave you the instruction that the Pastor would frown upon, and religious instruction gave us stories of devotion and passion in a purely abstract fashion that we could incorporate into our carnal education.

In Spain, public schools offer religious instruction at state expense.

For the present, the Supreme Court decision in the McCollum case of 1948 interposes barriers, but this need not be final.13 In the meantime, the churches should seize every opportunity to give weekday religious instruction on released time outside the public schools.

These Catholics need and deserve proper guidance, especially the young ones who have not received good religious instruction.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «For years now we have seen religious teachers being given preference to work in state funded «faith» schools, not just when they would be expected to teach Religious Instruction or lead Collective Worship, but regardless of which subject they are applying for.

After reviewing the Parenting Plan, the trial court ruled the Parenting Plan did not give veto power to either parent regarding educational decisions, but because school is essentially both or neither parent's time, one parent can not deny religious instruction during his or her parenting time over the other parent's objection.

Under Dixon, Victorians have witnessed the chaos and confusion over Special Religious Instruction in schools, with Dixon seemingly beholden to fundamentalist religious groups over the wishes of principals and parents.

Hard to accept religious instruction from the largest organized pedophile ring in the history of the planet.

Can we incorporate electronic ethics into religious instruction?

For decades Southern Baptists have ignored the systematic religious instruction of young people, assuming that a pious experience of «Jesus in my heart» would suffice.

Surveys indicate that while parents would like more choice in education, the number for whom explicitly religious instruction is a primary consideration is relatively small; most seem content to leave that to their churches and synagogues.

Methodists helped pioneer the original «focus on the family,» making the Victorian era the heyday of home - based religious instruction.

Walker noted that the Court would later permit religious instruction that was voluntary and held off - campus — distinguishing that from required religious teaching in classes during the school day.

Students were released from classes to attend religious instruction of their choice taught either at a church or synagogue or by teachers who came to the school for that purpose.

The point is that the 1st Amendment protects us from government endorsement of religion, and having a government agent standing on government property on government time issuing religious instructions is a crystal clear violation of it.

Thus in a large number of sermons, in much religious instruction, and in the emphasis found in theological teaching, death, judgement, heaven, and hell have little if any place.

Art, he says, shouldn't be subordinated to extra-artistic aims, whether manipulative propaganda or sincere religious instruction.

I mean, there's certainly religious instruction as to how to always cause tension (not all religions mind you, but some threads of some denominations).

The six fundamentals of Islam — belief in God, in Angels, in the scriptures, in the messengers of God, in the Day of Resurrection, and in God's disposition for good and evil — are taught to all Muslims, but those who receive only simple religious instruction have only superficial knowledge of religious doctrine.

The basic religious instruction also includes instruction in ritual purification and in performance of the salat, the daily ritual prayers, and in the proper way to formulate the intention to fast the following day, an intention which should be expressed every evening during the month of Ramadan.

This led to one of the most serious problems in mid-twentieth century America — the relation between religious instruction and public education.

Under the leadership of Horace Mann, the Massachusetts public - school system was thoroughly revamped, and the old practice of denominational religious instruction was eliminated in favor of instruction in universal Christian principles which were to be found in all denominations.

While the entire document may be downloaded, Chapter 6, A Teachers Guide to Religion in the Public Schools, gives a most pragmatic overview of how religious instruction can be constitutionally instituted.

But, in 1879, the elite dominated Liberal party banned subsidies for Catholic schools and required all municipalities to establish public schools that would replace religious instruction with secular moral training.

The program stipulates that participating students may not select schools that require religious instruction or worship.

Do we think that early religious instruction better shapes the morals of our children as the Victorians would believe?

That includes the provisions about the prohibition against religious instruction in schools.»