One of the concerns expressed about ethics classes is that children will be taught to think things through for themselves, and will not be told what is right or wrong. Is this concern justified, and how does this approach differ from that of SRE classes?

Abstract: In their campaign to stop ethics classes, some church organisations are resorting to scare tactics and blatant untruths in attempts to turn opinion against this choice for our children.

The Save our Scripture campaign objects to ethics classes. Why? The campaign leaders know that the ethics classes are not an attempt to get rid of scripture classes, and that there is no need to “save” them.

Last month, the NSW branch of the Inter-Church Commission on Religious Education in Schools (ICCOREIS) made a 12-page submission to Dr Sue Knight, the academic evaluating the trial ethics program (read the submission here ). Their submission is an attempt to influence Dr Knight’s evaluation and derail the program. One of the main reasons for more…