There is a tendency in many churches for young people to abandon the church altogether. It is said that they “graduate out of church”. A variety of reasons are proposed, but the influence of public schooling is seldom noticed. When the National Curriculum was introduced in 2002, one of the greatest objections was the promotion of the religion of Interfaith, especially in the subject “Life Orientation”. According to the religion of...

Homeschooling parents were recently shocked when the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) not once, but twice attempted to curb the liberty of parents to choose what is in the best interest of their children. On 11 February the WCED issued Draft 8 of a proposed policy on home education that unlawfully requires parents to use the state curriculum, register before 30 September of the year before they can start homeschooling, prohibiting...