The teaching of religion in the school system: objections to an unconstitutional limitation

Abstract

Article 8 of administrative regulation 924 (education department, 1983) which holds a prohibition concerning the teaching of religion at K12 may be unconstitutionnal. First, because it impinges both on religious freedom and freedom of teaching. Second, because it hardly meets up with the standars of principle of equality, since it treats teachers differently when they are equals, and encompasses within the same rule schools which are different. And third, because it infringes a constitutional boundary, that which prevents executive orders from regulating fundamental rights.