Catholic Education opposes compulsory sharing of school spaces: “This is really not possible without support and in exchange for subsidies”

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1. Eerst met veel toeters en bellen planlast proberen aankaarten en dan zelf dit implementeren. Wie verzint het?

2. Why catholic schools should have public funding if Belgium is a secular country and the constitution states that there should be separation of religion and state?

   Governments should enforce the constitutional right to education and invest enough in public schools to guarantee quality education for everybody, and stop keeping the schools underfunded and understaffed so parents would switch to catholic or another private schools.

   In any case, it is sensible that religious schools should respect the same rules as secular public schools if they want public funding.

   edit: Dear VRT, you should follow [your own ethical code](https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2017/04/24/onpartijdigheid-1-2950210/) and not reduce the information to one of the parties, in this case you only show the opinion of the catholic schools. That is biased. You should, at least in other linked articles, give room for the opposite opinions.

   edit: some are mentioning the Belgian constitution.

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   >*§ 1. Education is free; any preventive measure is forbidden; the punish- ment of offences is regulated only by the law or federate law.*
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   >***The community offers free choice to parents.***
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   >***The community organises non-denominational education.*** *This implies in particular the respect of the philosophical, ideological or religious beliefs of parents and pupils.*
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   >*Schools run by the public authorities offer, until the end of compulsory education, the choice between the teaching of one of the recognised religions and non-denominational ethics teaching.*
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   >*§ 3. Everyone has the right to education with the respect of fundamental rights and freedoms. Access to education is free until the end of compulsory education.* ***All pupils of school age have the right to moral or religious education at the community’s expense.***
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   >*§ 5. The organisation, the recognition and the subsidising of education by the community are regulated by the law or federate law.*

   So, the constitution does not guarantee religious schools subsidized by the government. It only guarantees that religions can create freely their schools, but nowhere it is said that they would be funded. And it guarantees that you can be given “ethics” or “religion” in a public funded school.

3. An sich normaal dat een sportvereniging iets of wat huur gaat betalen. In Sint-Truiden is het alvast geen probleem

4. Te onnozel voor woorden. Het personeel zit nu al op zijn tandvlees, die hebben echt wel betere dingen te doen dan te overleggen met de plaatselijke yoga vereniging wanneer ze mogen de matten uitrollen na de schooluren.

5. Ergens sta ik achter wat ze willen beoogen maar enkele zaken zijn toch wat van de pot gerukt.

   >”Scholen kunnen een uitzondering vragen op dit decreet, maar moeten voor elk lokaal apart verklaren waarom ze het niét kunnen openstellen”

   Een school zou gewoon moeten kunnen bekendmaken welke lokalen ze wel ter beschikking stellen. Wat men voorstelt is de omgekeerde wereld.

   Ze kwamen bij ons ook onlangs van het stad om te bepalen waar ze hun verkiezingslokalen gingen organiseren. De school deed een voorstel maar dat was niet goed genoeg voor hen. Van alle lokalen waaruit ze konden kiezen kozen ze de twee lokalen waar de school het meeste werk heeft om het ‘verkiesbureau’ klaar te krijgen want: praktijklokalen.