Another year of occurrence. According to the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), fewer and fewer students are taking up the subject of religion. In this 2021-2022 academic year, less than six out of ten students will be enrolled in the subject for the first time: they are 59.85%, one point higher than the previous year, and at some specific level, for example, undergraduate. In total or ESO public centers, there are already more people who do not vote for it than for those who do.
A total of 3,151,194 students are currently studying the subject in absolute numbers. This means that in just two courses the subject lost five percentage points and 186,003 students. If the focus is expanded, religion has lost half a million students since 2015.
And not so promising for future bishops: The educational reform that is unfolding these days is doubling the effective weight of the subject: it will no longer be a computable undergraduate grade point average and, moreover, it will no longer have an alternative to the subject. The first measurement means that religion assessment will no longer be considered the average used to add a scholarship requirement or selective class to determine each student’s final grade for access to a career. The first to notice this change are the students who will start their first year of undergraduate studies next September.
For this generation – and all who come before Lomloe is in power – there will be two secondary assessments: one for all subjects, including religion, which will be official and appear with the mention of the undergraduate title. The path chosen, in accordance with Article 22.4 of the Bachelor’s RD, and the second “normalized, without regard to the qualification of the subject of religion (…) to guarantee equality and the principle of free coexistence (…) In which the academic records must comply, ”as stated in the same royal decree.
Second provision, remove the call The subject of the mirror, Puts unresolved strangers, for example, where to look for an issue. Given that the ministry has finally refused to impose it under a royal ordinance regulating undergraduate studies, the responsibility will remain in the hands of the directors of the institutes, but because it is impossible to have students around the institute in the afternoon. With nothing to do and no monitoring, the options are few: either placed at the beginning or end of the day so that those who do not receive it can arrive later, or go earlier or hinder learning like that. .
It’s not scientifically proven – students should be asked about the motives for enrolling in a religion – but it does decide to increase scores (this has always been considered Mary, A simple subject) or the fact that not passing it facilitates spending fewer hours at the center may be an incentive for the student body not to enroll. Those in charge of education say that the number of students enrolled in the next courses will be even greater.
The EEC, which has developed a curriculum in which it promotes “freedom of expression”, “democratic values”, “pluralism of democratic societies”, “elimination of inequality between men and women” or “environmental sustainability”, hopes. It’s more of an educational and less dogmatic proposition than a case in point.
Last year, bishops blamed the drop on a pandemic. They explain that although “the current course started in better conditions than the previous one, the difficulties continued with successive waves of infections until the second quarter.” Despite the fall, the church record assesses “very positively the fact that more than three million male and female students study religion weekly as a freely chosen subject” and emphasizes that “these are important figures to consider within a diverse society. With growing cultural and religious diversity.” .
The distribution of students of religion is one of the concerns of bishops. The rates vary significantly between different school networks, minimum public, majority, maximums in agreement and intermediate point in particular, as well as between stages.
There are more students in state centers who do not take the subject than those who study: an average of 48% study religion, a maximum of 52% in elementary and a minimum of 37.6% in undergraduate. The decline in religion students at these centers has been noticeable over 20 years: they increased from 79.4% of subject students in the 2001-2002 academic year to the current 48%. In a privately owned but publicly funded school, an agreed-upon school, ten to nine students are enrolled in religion, pretty much the same at all levels. Finally, individuals have 75% registered in the entity without a concert.
Gradually, elementary school is where most students are in religion and from there they drop out. At ESO, 62% of the elementary course becomes 59% and up to 48% of the undergraduate, the lowest.
Source: El Diario
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