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I'm from Sweden and I'd though that this would be interesting for the global community.
http://www.thelocal.se/8790/20071015/
http://www.dagen.se/dagen/Article.aspx?ID=143564 (Swedish, but translated above)
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1042&a=704437 (Swedish, but translated above)
http://www.dagen.se/dagen/Article.aspx?ID=143546 (Swedish, but translated above)
It is all over the news.
The Swedish government is to crack down on the role religion plays in independent faith schools. The new rules will include a ban on biology teachers teaching creationism or 'intelligent design' alongside evolution.
"Pupils must be protected from all forms of fundamentalism," said Education Minister Jan Björklund to Dagens Nyheter. [...] Björklund also said the Swedish National Agency for Education would double the number of inspections of both council-run and independent schools. He also announced a ban on anonymous financial donations to schools and said he would make it easier to close schools that were breaking the rules.
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Björklund also said the Swedish National Agency for Education would double the number of inspections of both council-run and independent schools. He also announced a ban on anonymous financial donations to schools and said he would make it easier to close schools that were breaking the rules.
http://www.thelocal.se/8790/20071015/
Confessional education is getting banned
The education that is controlled by the curriculum should be non confessional. That message was given by school minister Jan Björklund at a press conference Monday.
By confessional, he means the education that aims to a confession or that puts forward a certain conviction of the true teaching. According to Dagens Nyheter, a biology teacher [in a religious free school] will not be allowed to present the biblical account of creation side-by-side with evolution
http://www.dagen.se/dagen/Article.aspx?ID=143564 (Swedish, but translated above)
Religious content shall be banned in schools. That's a decision made by the leaders of the Alliance, the four-party coalition that currently leads Sweden. They will also stop hidden contributions and a mismanaged school will be shut down within 2 weeks. "The pupils must be protected against all forms of fundamentalism" say Jan Björklund, the Swedish education minister.
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Now it's crystal clear; this content will not be allowed. Some statements made by free-schools have given us a worrying picture, say Jan Björklund.
It will still be allowed to read morning prayer, but as soon as the real teachings begin, it must follow the same content that is taught by the other schools.
Problems in religious free schools has been discussed a lot the last few years. Minister of Immigration Nyamko Sabuni (fp) has wanted to ban religious free schools entirely, and as late as last month, the pary secretary of the Social Democrats Marita Ulvskog has called them 'child prisons'.
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1042&a=704437 (Swedish, but translated above)
Swedish Social Democrats [current opposition; actually larger than the ruling government according to recent polls] demands a quick end to religious schools. The Social Democrats demands that the current government quickly create a bill to change the law so that some religious schools can be stopped.
[The Social Democrats is the largest Swedish party and the most likely to win next election]
http://www.dagen.se/dagen/Article.aspx?ID=143546 (Swedish, but translated above)
It is all over the news.
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