Churches build high school classroom

Greens MP John Kaye says “aggressive” local churches have spent $30,000 to turn a lunch shelter into a classroom for Special Religious Education (SRE) on the grounds of Warners Bay High School.

“It’s effectively a chapel inside a public school allowing for the proselytising of kids in those schools,” he said.

A weaselly non-excuse from the NSW Education Department regional director:

“The school principal has discretion under the community use of school facilities policy to hire out a school service or school activity,” she said.

“The church group would only have access to the room during the SRE and the space then would be available for the school to use at its discretion at all other times in the school day.”

During the day? Not good enough.