PRESS RELEASE

Removal Of Moral And Religious Education From School’s Curriculum

The Leader and Presidential Candidate of the NDC, John Evans Atta Mills, identifies wholly with the stance of the Catholic Bishops Conference, as regards the concern about the inability of the new educational curriculum to accommodate Religious and Moral Education.

John Evans Atta Mills believes that if the nation cannot bequeath to the youth anything, it must at least bequeath to them, a high sense of morality and uprightness and there is no denying the fact that the teaching of religion and morality in Basic Schools would provide the needed pivot around which the nation’s forward march would revolve.

The attempt by those in charge of the new curriculum to explain away the unacceptable omission, claiming that Religious and Moral Education have been integrated into some other aspects of the curriculum, is distasteful and the NDC Presidential Candidate supports the Catholic Bishops Conference in asking for an immediate re-look at the new educational curriculum for Basic Schools and for the immediate reintroduction of Religious and Moral Education.

Indeed, if President Kufuor is worried about the increasing reports of drugs and alcohol abuse among students, as expressed on Saturday, November 13, 2007, when he was addressing the Golden Jubilee celebration of Kumasi Academy, it cannot be lost on the President that the teaching of religion and morality in basic schools can address his concerns.

Religion and morality have been the backbone of Ghana and all well-meaning Ghanaians must support the call of the Catholic Bishops Conference to make sure that without any delay, the educational curriculum finds space for Religious and Moral Education.

OFFICE OF PROF. JOHN EVANS ATTA MILLS

KUKU HILL, OSU, ACCRA, GHANA P.O.BOX 375, ACCRA. TEL 233-21-760225 FAX NO 233-21-760226

November 13, 2007

Koku Anyidoho (In-charge, Communications) Posted by Micky Charles