Surrogacy issue at work

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My guess is you would have faced disciplinary action.

I’d have likely done as you did, stated that this is not true for all Christians.
 
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The school doesn’t have any faith attached to it. Just meeting the legal requirement to ‘teach’ RE in secondary school.
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Sounds like you taught WHAT it is, and WHY it is valuable to some people. That is just educating the students about the reality of it. If you didn’t discuss morality around it, I don’t think you did anything wrong. In orer for kids to know what the Catholic Church teaches about these things, they have to first understand WHAT the issue at hand is (biologically speaking). If you are working in a public school, you should either get to a place where you are comfortable teaching the curriculum or comfortable declining certain lessons. I think either way is fine. It really should be up to the parents to teach the morality of these issues to their kids.
 
When you have so little time to prepare for a class that you normally don’t teach you do the best you can. I have substituted in primary school for a number of years and often had one minute to prepare the classes for the whole day before saying “Good morning children. I will be your teacher today”.
 
It was sprung on us only a couple of days before we were due to teach it - I have no idea what’s on the curriculum, because it’s not my subject. I’m not trained to teach RE at all. I’m an English teacher - I didn’t even do an A Level in RE so I’m not covered to teach it, really. It’s a shame this had to happen at all.
 
Wow! That’s awful!

We were sent the lesson through multiple emails, in drips and drabs; there was no sort of cohesion, no one topic which was stuck to … too complicated and far too uncomfortable for my liking!
 
I’m from the UK and that sounds like a weird lesson for a school. I understand that a non-Catholic school wouldn’t give a lot of time to Catholic teachings but what about the side of surrogacy exploiting women or the fact that it deliberately creates a baby who will be separated from their mother. It just seemed such a one sided way to look at the issue.
 
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This shows why it is such a good idea not to have religious instruction in any state school. Education about religion - fine. But education about what to believe - no.
 
It came about because they had to find something for PSHE/RE and Robbie Williams has just announced he and his wife have had a baby via a surrogate… No other reason as far as I can see, other than that.
 
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