Ecolo wants to extend these courses to the free network

The Constitutional Court granted Thursday an appeal lodged by the General Secretariat for Catholic Education (SeGEC) against an advantage granted to official education in connection with the introduction, two years ago in this case. Network, the new philosophy and citizenship course (CPC). Ecolo, through his deputy in the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Christos Doulkeridis, intends to take advantage of the decision to propose extending the citizenship and philosophy courses to the free network.

Ecolo intends to take advantage of this stop to revive an initiative to extend CPCs to free education. " We are acting on the decision of the Court and want to go forward ," says Mr. Doulkeridis. " If the SeGEC wants equity, there must be total equity ," he continues. " Ecolo has always been in favor of CPCs in all networks, we have already made proposals in this direction and we will discuss them again with the other groups in Parliament." "SeGEC probably did not hope such an initiative in case of victory in the highest court of the country

The reform challenged before the Court provided for the reduction of the number of hours of morality or religion dispensed in official education for the benefit of CPC. In order not to put the job in danger, however, the Federation government decided that moral or religious teachers who would lose hours because of the reform could still keep them by doing the coordination, the remediation if necessary. and pedagogical support.

These measures could not, however, be solicited by Catholic schools, which offered only one course of Catholic religion. However, the SeGEC considered that this is a discrimination between networks, condemned by the Constitution. The Court ruled in his favor on Thursday.