The dilemma of a parent, undecided whether to accept his son to participate in the hours of religion at school, challenged the Romanians to relate the experiences they went through. Many Romanians were delighted by them, but others say they were chosen with trauma.
Participation in religion hours is optional. Photo: freepik.com
A young man who declares himself atheist invited the Romanians to tell the experiences lived during the hours of religion at school, in the hope that they will help him decide if he will send his child to participate in these courses.
Pleasant memories of religion teachers
Hundreds of people have told their experiences on the Reddit platform, and some of them claim that they remained with deep impressions about the teachers they had, at religion.
“My religion teacher was young, beautiful and smart, the boys were in love with her, and we, the girls, wanted to be like her. From her we learned about Mircea Eliade, about the fact that each religion has extraordinary stories, transmitted and improved from generation to generation and that the emergence of each area has been in the respective area.“, A young woman remembers.
And other Romanians say that at the time of religion the teacher mattered more than what is taught. “I had a teacher who came to the time with the guitar and play rock. Was so open to mind and joke that I learned the religion of pleasure”, Recalls another internet.
A young man says he misses the hours of religion in the general school.
“In the first years I had a teacher who seemed to be an angel on earth. Although she was just a teacher, she could be an actress, painter, singer, how talented she was. Even the class tricks were listening to her. She had an enlightened face and a smile that healed your anger. he says.
Another reminds that the hours of religion were not a burden.
“He was a cute priest, an extraordinary man, who told us that it is a bad idea to force a bored teenager and songs, so he prefers to talk to us about any subject, to present the values and the essence of religion and how to integrate them in your daily life: For love at his time ”, He tells him.
Unpleasant experiences at religion hours
The time of religion was, some Romanians say, a second hour of leadership, and the teachers left a pleasant impression. Others remember that they met among teachers people they failed to understand.
“My religion teacher was habotic. He did not teach us the creed, but gave us a surprise test from him and filled the class with notes of 3 and 4. He told us: you had to know him, what Christians you are. When the religion became optional, I was in the eighth grade.he remembers a young man.
A Romanian tells that although he appreciated his former leader, who teaches religion in an exemplary way, teenagers were not very interested in this subject.
“We were interested in football, we were talking about video games, drinking energizers and chiuleam. The girls were in the park or you found them on the teachers’ scale. Nothing was stuck to us, not even listing the 12 apostles. I know more religion from Easter films,” Write this.
Another Internet use says he has nothing against the hours of religion, but his daughter was marked by one of the lessons.
“The girl came home crying, telling me she didn’t want to go anymore, because the teacher put them on the video projector with the crucifixion of Jesus,” support it.
Adolescents, “scared” by Revelation
Another Romanian says he went through similar experiences.
“And now I remember that I could not sleep a few days after the religion teacher in grades 1-4 told us what Revelation means, how the fire will come over us, to burn us and we all die. Or that we would burn in hell because I was bad. I had come to have panic attacks. he remembers.
Another told that the teacher of religion told him that if he did not say ten times “our father” before bed, the devils will enter his dreams.
“The whole group had anxiety. Once we were told that we should not learn so much, that God hates educated and philosophers, who are arrogant. And not to listen to history and biology teachers. These things happened in the 1990s and 2000, in good schools in Bucharest.”he writes.
A parent says he refused to send his child to religion hours, because he is too emotional.
“He has a lot of fears and I would not want to add the fear of God or the flames of hell ”, Believe this.
Another Romanian says he leaves his son to religion lessons to have access to as much information and education.
The religion is in the common trunk of the schedule, where the compulsory subjects are found for all students, but this discipline has a special status: it is optional. The law of pre -university education of 2023 shows that religion is a school discipline, part of the common trunk.
“The students belonging to the cults recognized by the state, regardless of their number at the level of a educational unit, are ensured the constitutional right to participate in the religion time, according to their own confession. The student’s registration to attend the religion hours is done by the written request of the major student or parents or the legal representative,”
The change of this option is also made by the written request of the major student or parents or legal representative, for the minor student. If the student does not attend religion hours, the school situation ends without the discipline.
“The religion discipline can only be taught by the qualified teaching staff, according to the provisions of this law, and approved by the religious cults officially recognized, in accordance with the methodology approved by order of the Minister of Education”provides the text of the law.
