Parents lobby Victorian Government to ban Bible in classrooms
By Susie O'Brien
February 04, 2012
The billboard in Bulleen. Supplied
PARENTS are stepping up pressure on the Education Department to end religious education in state schools amid claims it is making children isolated and fearful.
A massive billboard has been erected in Bulleen claiming state schools "are not church playgrounds".
It says: "Special religious instruction divides our children".
The billboard was erected by parent-run lobby group FIRIS (Fairness in Religion in Schools), which is calling on education authorities to change the law so that "special religious instruction" is no longer offered in state schools.
Victorian state school children have to attend 30 minutes of special religious instruction unless their parents decline on their behalf.
Those who do not attend have to be supervised by another teacher outside the classroom where the religious lesson is taking place.
It comes ahead of a VCAT case challenging the validity of religious classes in state schools.
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