Article 42.1 The State acknowledges that the primary and natural educator of the child is the Family and guarantees to respect the inalienable right and duty of parents to provide, according to their means, for the religious and moral, intellectual, physical and social education of their children.Part of this commentator's 'solution' to the 'problem' of most educational provision was a revision of that section of the Constitution which guarantees the rights of parents.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Feast of the Holy Family
Whilst preaching today, I reminded the congregation that the Church is a great advocate of the natural rights of the family, and that parents in particular should familiarise themselves about what the Church has to say about their role. Ironically, on the radio this morning I heard a commentator complain about the Church's role in education. He didn't think it was fitting that the vast majority of Irish primary schools should have the local bishop as patron in 'Post-Catholic Ireland' and thought that the Constitutional provision in this regard needed revision because it was drafted by Archbishop McQuaid of Dublin. What precisely did he regard as needing to be changed? The following which he referenced explicitly:
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+JMJ+
Remember a few years ago when German parents were jailed and their child was put in foster care because they were homeschooling her?
Anyway, I'm glad that the Church supports parents as the primary educators of their children; but even if She didn't, I'd think it was common sense. =S I shudder to think of the repercussions should the idea that the State ought to be the primary educator become more widespread!
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