The country’s largest provider of religious instruction in schools has stood down three volunteers for teaching pupils their own beliefs. Churches Education Commission (CEC) chief executive Simon Greening said he removed the three volunteer teachers for deviating from the organisation’s strict code of expectations, and that there may have been others around the country. In Read more
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7 year old left alone to read as alternative to school’s Bible based programme 
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Friday, December 7th, 2012
A couple who took their daughter out of a school’s Bible based programme, called Values in Action, were told by the school that an alternative programme would be provided for children who opted out. However the child’s father says that when he visited the school he found his 7 year old daughter left alone in a Read more
Bible in schools – Christians disagree about it Comments 3
Friday, July 20th, 2012
An Anglican priest’s support of the Secular Education Network’s campaign to stop the Bible in Schools programme has prompted New Zealand’s two Anglican Archbishops to reaffirm their Church’s support of the Churches Education Commission’s Bible in Schools programme. In an interview on Television One, the Reverend Clay Nelson, an associate priest at St Matthews in the City in Auckland, said Read more
Geering says not enough religion in schools Comments 1
Friday, July 13th, 2012
Sir Lloyd Geering believes there are good reasons for teaching religion in schools. He thinks parents’ confusion about the word “religion”, can make them more likely to remove their children from religion classes. “I think ‘religion’ is probably a word that is confusing the whole situation. What we really should be talking about is culture. Read more
