Agreed PolicyEducation, Culture and Public Life
Private, Catholic and Independent Schools
A plural education system including Catholic, private, classical, vocational and monastic schools, with public funding able to follow families.
Policy catalogueEducation, Culture and Public Life
Agreed PolicyHomeschooling
Homeschooling should be legal and protected, because parents are the primary educators of their children.
Position
Homeschooling should be legal and protected, because parents are the primary educators of their children.
Policy
- Parents may homeschool.
- Explicitly Catholic homeschooling is permitted.
- The state may require basic competence in literacy, mathematics and civic knowledge.
- Periodic assessment may verify that children are actually receiving an education.
- The state should not use oversight to impose ideological conformity.
Implementation note
Implementation note
Home education is currently prohibited or tightly restricted in several European states, so this would require legislative change in those jurisdictions.
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- Manifesto CoreEducation, Culture and Public Life
Purpose of Education
Education should transmit civilization before attempting to transform it, with serious study of Christianity, history, classical civilization, the sciences and the arts.
- Agreed PolicyEducation, Culture and Public Life
Sex Education in Schools
Schools may teach factual reproductive biology, but moral formation on sexuality belongs primarily to parents and chosen religious institutions.
- Manifesto CoreFamily, Demography and Social Order
Family
The family formed around marriage is the fundamental social institution, and public policy should make marriage and child-rearing materially realistic.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.