Religion in the SCS is already a minority in public schools

One of the biggest concerns of the Catholic Church in regard to confessionals has been the secondary issue, where kids and not their parents choose whether or not to participate And for the first time, according to data from the Spanish Episcopal Conference, a minority students of this course are in public institutes studying Catholicism. There are just two tenths, with a 49.8%, which separate it from the middle, but put it across that border in a symbolic stage of compulsory education almost three decades after the matter became optional.

In public schools most still do it, with 80% of students who choose this option. However, the figure is 4.7 percentage points lower than just three years ago, and 10 percentage points lower than 12 years ago, when the EC began to gather these statistics through their diocese (which may not always coincide with the data of the Ministry of Education). In early childhood education, the percentage of students in the public attending Catholic religion is 80.6% and in high school is only 36.8%, 20 percentage points lower than in 1996. Counting globally every stage, the students of Catholic religion in public schools has grown in that time from 81.6% to 68.5%.

With this educational law adopted by the PSOE, ethics classes ceased to be the alternative to religion courses and was replaced by surveying activities. "The fact that teenagers and young people, in choosing a subject such as confessional, are offered as an alternative a few options uneven in content and assessment, identifies and explains the differences can be observed at every stage , "he says in a note the EEC.