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Agreement in PrincipleAgreement in Principle • December 9th, 2010
The introduction of an ethics course to run alongside special religious education—SRE or scripture—provides an important choice for the public school parents of New South Wales. Such a course fills a gap identified by individual parents and the New South Wales Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations. For many years parents have been lobbying for a viable and meaningful alternative to special religious education. In some schools not all faiths are offered as special religious education alternatives. In others, significant numbers of parents choose not to send their children to special religious education. The place of religious education in New South Wales public schools has been guaranteed for over a century. It arose out of the establishment of the New South Wales public education system by Henry Parkes. This was reaffirmed most recently in the New South Wales Education Act of 1990 which in part states:
