The Commission for Education and Culture of the Spanish Episcopal Conference has made public today in a statement the data collected by the 69 diocesan delegations of education in 18,043 centers public, concerted and private. Not all schools, but yes “a significant majority”point.
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The figures show that the percentage of students who study Religion decreases when they reach Baccalaureate and that the highest levels are recorded in Primary Education. From 59.2% of the student body in Infant, it goes to 62.77% in Primary, 59.15% in ESO and 48.25% in Baccalaureate. Although this trend is general, the subject of Catholic Religion is more popular in concerted centers (89.62%) than in private (75.21%) and public (48%).
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“We value very positively that more than three million male and female students study Religion weekly as a freely chosen subject; is about Significant numbers that must be considered in the context of a diverse society of growing plurality cultural and religious”, affirm the bishops.
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