Posted on 08/11/2021 7:36:40 PM PDT by marshmallow
A report on a survey of 214 religious education teachers in Ireland is raising alarm that students who practice a religion, particularly Catholicism, are being bullied for their beliefs.
In Ireland, religious education is a compulsory subject for all pupils. The survey studied teachers in post-primary schools, which are typically schools for children over the age of 12.
The report, “Inclusive Religious Education: The Voices of Religious Education Teachers in Post Primary Schools in Ireland, Identity, bullying and inclusion” was authored by Dr. Amalee Meehan and Derek A. Laffan, MSc. The National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre and Dublin City University published the report, which was released in August 2021.
“Students of faith are vulnerable to bullying. The negative view of faith and faith schools contributes to this effect, making students of faith a vulnerable group,” said the report.
“The most vulnerable group of second level school students to emerge from the open forum are practising Catholics; the least vulnerable are those who profess a nonreligious or atheist worldview,” they said.
The report blamed growing secular behaviors for why religious students would be targeted, and teachers reported “evidence of pressure on students to be/ identify as a non-believer.”
The survey found that while the religious education teachers were concerned about bullying of all students who practiced a religion, they were “most concerned about the bullying of Catholic students.”
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There Irish. Just gives them another reason for a fist fight.
Didn’t they used to have a war over whether they were Catholic or catholic?
Ireland has been a pagan nation for some time.
No, it was a terrorist movement led by the anarchist IRA against the British occupiers. The IRA were largely Catholic and the British were largely Protestant but the conflict wasn’t over religion. If one side had converted to the religion of the other it would have made no difference, but the media perpetuated the myth because it sold papers.
Most Irish seem to have Stockholm Syndrome now. They’ve mourned it but they basically become b
Brits.
The IRA were not anarchist or Catholic. They were leftist and mostly atheist.
The IRA are/were atheistic commies. Lenin even was congratulatory to them for attempting the first communistic revolution in 1916.
They never met the Catholic kids I had to endure catechism classes with.
Those good little Catholic kids raised bullying to a fine art.
My foot they are victims.
And the bullies are of what religious persuasion I wonder……(not really. It’s pretty easy to guess who the bully-ers are)
Same here but in a regular HS. All the bullies had crucifixes hanging from their necks. Most were Irish and a few were Italian.
Club of Rome
City of London
Ishtar US DC Military City-State
I got it both places, both at the public high school and at the catechism classes.
Even the nuns had a hard time controlling the mob and this was a suburban parish in WNY.
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