Ex-minister says court ruling on religion classes reminiscent of 'dark decade of '50s'

Former education minister Nikos Filis criticized a ruling by the Council of State that deemed as unconstitutional reforms to religion classes at schools introduced by him and his successor in 2017.

"The ruling of the CoS returns education back to the dark decade of the 1950s and the Greek-Christian Constitution of 1952," Filis, who was education minister from September 2016 to November 2017, said in a statement.

"The jurisprudence will lead to an impasse in education, raise issues of consciousness and ultimately lead to the course becoming optional."
The SYRIZA central committee member explained that, based on the logic of this ruling, all curricula introduced since 2000 should not have been implemented, because in all of them, to a greater or lesser extent, the development of "religious consciousness" stipulated in the 1975 Constitution was not construed as a...