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Keep religion out of school campaign

The Humanist Society of New Zealand fully supports the ‘Keep religion out of school’ campaign. The main objective of this campaign is to:

‘promote an inclusive school curriculum that does not require any student to withdraw from class on account of different religious beliefs, to cease the practice of volunteer-run religious instruction during school hours, follow an objective, fair and balanced comparative syllabus for education about religions and beliefs and to treat all religious organisations who wish to use the school facilities outside of the school day with transparent and equitable policies’.

Our society opposes any attempt in New Zealand state schools to:

• replace education with indoctrination
• preach religious dogma to an impressionable audience
• degrade science and promote superstition
• influence students towards a particular sectarian view
• promote a values system that is based on the expectation of reward and punishment in an afterlife.

As a society we abhor the use of our tax-funded state schools for these purposes.

See the press release