The Spanish socialist government replaced compulsory religious education with civics. Countering this law, roughly 50.000 parents withdrew their children from those lessons because they considered the taught content (democracy, equality between the sexes, homosexuality, immigration, globalisation,...) as indoctrination. Particularly catholic parents felt that their children were being infused with certain (read: communist) morals, and claimed that it was their (inalenienable) right to corrupt their children themselves and with their own morals.
Now, I don't know anything about this civic education business, and honestly, I don't care whether it "really" has a leftist coloration or not. I am simply astonished by the fact that those people obviously think that their children are blank spaces and will-less machines that can be fed with whatever content you have and ta-da! they become well-behaved, honest communists, who think men and women equal and don't consider homosexuality a curse or an illness. (Of course, since there never were any youngsters who revolted against the values and morals of their teachers or parents.) I am also astonished by the fact that obviously they don't think that their children get infused with values and morals in any other class. Like: History class, as if that had anything to do with morals or ideology? Please! Moral free schools! Teachers without opinions! Lessons without ideology! TV without information! Capitalism without bad banks! Society without citizens! Markets without states!
For heaven's sake people, you can't be serious about this.
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