#school chaplaincy program

Classic Miranda, 2011: "Garrett is considering rewriting the guidelines to stop proselytising chaplains. A maths teacher is quoted saying he was “shocked” when the chaplain invited children to pray. Even before this concocted scandal, the school chaplaincy program has been under sustained attack from aggressive religion-hating secularists who are testing its right to exist in the High Court and in an Ombudsman’s investigation. But aren’t there more pressing problems in education than a peaceful girl and a boy who believes in Jesus?"

Classic Miranda, 2010: "AT last the NSW Opposition has showed some backbone in rejecting social engineering “ethics” classes in NSW primary schools. There has been a whiff of subterfuge about the classes ever since Nathan Rees proposed them in the dying days of his woeful premiership. For one thing, there is the enthusiastic support of the Atheist Foundation and the Greens, who see the classes as a backdoor way to impose their own unrepresentative beliefs on children. For another, do we know enough about the motivations and funding of the St James Ethics Centre, which ran a trial of the classes, and would provide course material and volunteer teachers, paid for by anonymous donors?"