Should religious schools receive funding
from the state like secular schools?
Would parents be wise to send their children to schools of a different
religion to broaden their horizons?
Should every student have to learn about religion? What should the content of religious
instruction classes look like? Should
there be more education about Christianity in Christian countries for example?
What do you think about Slovakia’s solutions to these problems as compared to
South Africa’s?
If South Africa is a Christian country, and it is, personally, I think they will not secularize the schools. Even in spite of the NGO's wants to. Because if the government decided in favour of the organization, not only that it's act would be considerable as discriminating, but also the state would come into the double standard problem described by the author. So the state could be considered undemocratic. And I do not think the politicians in SA would want this, as it might start conflicts with some countries supporting democracy.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, there could be an apology to the NGO having filed the application to prohibit the six schools from being Christian: maybe they did not find them worthy of being called Christian. Maybe the schools were making a bad name to the religion. For example, by obligating the students to visit churches or to pray, which I do not think should be compulsory. Or perhaps the schools have many teachers similar in manners to the ones author had for RI – people so different from her father in some areas. Therefore the members of the organization might ask a question: “What could a person never having experienced real Christianity think about the religion if they were in such an environment?” Unfortunately, these are rather speculations, not necessarily being correct.