{"id":7744,"date":"2011-05-30T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2011-05-30T22:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:47:17","slug":"religion-in-public-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/05\/30\/religion-in-public-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion in public education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally time to read the Sunday Age and\u00a0the largely Victorian debate over\u00a0the\u00a0teaching of religious instruction in public\/ state schools continues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Barry McGaw, the chairman of the national curriculum authority, told <em>The Sunday Age<\/em>: &#8221;I don&#8217;t see anything wrong with a special religious\u00a0 instruction that operates precisely on [the current] grounds. If we deny any\u00a0 place to religion in public education and wish to make it entirely [secular], we\u00a0 are actually basing it on a particular world view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/education\/curriculum-head-warns-against-axing-religion-20110528-1f9py.html\">Curriculum head warns against axing religion<\/a>.\u00a0 See also, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/05\/27\/clarifying-school-chaplaincy\/\">Clarifying school chaplaincy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally time to read the Sunday Age and\u00a0the largely Victorian debate over\u00a0the\u00a0teaching of religious instruction in public\/ state schools continues. Professor Barry McGaw, the chairman of the national curriculum authority, told The Sunday Age: &#8221;I don&#8217;t see anything wrong with &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/05\/30\/religion-in-public-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7749,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/7749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}