Let's say it straight. The MUT is at war with the Curia. First, it was at war with the Curia over the Religion curriculum. The question was not the curriculum per se, but because the Education Department has no control over the Religion Curriculum. This is an anathema for the MUT. How can it be, a government bureaucrat has no control over a subject that is taught in our schools? As some great thinker, such as the Marxist Foucault would have rightly observed, bureaucrats throughout the centuries have an issue with power. They want to use power to control. Therefore, the issue raised by MUT over the religious curriculum has nothing to do with content but is how our educational bureaucrats at the Ministry of Education can increase their control over our pupils.

Now, MUT is at war about the appointment of teachers in Catholic Schools. The MUT did it again. It lambasted a position policy that is being prepared by the Catholic Church about appointments and selection criteria for appointing teachers and other educational leaders. According to The Malta Independent, it is insisting that teachers in Catholic Church who "do not adhere in their substantive life-choices to the teachings of the Catholic Church" will not be employed.

I am a parent who sends my children to a Church School. This was my choice, which I took together with my wife. As a parent, I demand and expect that my children are given a Catholic teaching by their teachers. I hope that the MUT and its President stop messing about with the educational choices of us parents. I want and insist upon my children's teachers being of a Catholic ethos. This is why I have chosen a Catholic school. Those who do not want their children to be given a Catholic education have their respective choices, both in the private and public sector. Those teachers who are not happy to teach in a Catholic Church as they have a problem with Catholicism can opt to go and teach in another school.

Let us stop to argue that under the employment law, it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of religion. Can anyone conceive that a political party, being it Nationalist or Labour, employ someone who is from the opposing side? Do not our political parties discriminate in their employment options? While everybody expects that our political parties employ their own adherents, one expects the Catholic Church to have atheists and people who, out of their own choice, decide not to follow the precepts of the Catholic teaching, to be given a job in a Catholic school. This is not on. What is sauce for our political parties is also sauce for our Catholic Schools. 

The same holds for the Muslim school in Malta. Let's stop bringing it as an example of cultural inclusivity because Maltese are employed to teach at this school. What no one says is that Christian Arabs, who have a regular permit to live and work in Malta and hold a teaching warrant are not part of the teaching staff at this school. It is an open secret about this Christian Arab community that it is useless to apply to work at this school. The Arabs employed there are all of Muslim confession. I would like to ask the Humanists to furnish me with some statistics, how many gay and lesbian teachers are employed at this Muslim school. Cultural inclusivity my foot. This is communism at its best.

If the MUT continues with such declarations, it clearly indicates that it wants to impose a dictatorship of relativism on our education. On my part, with most of our pedagogy having been built on Marxist principles (and we need to be thankful to the past Nationalist governments for all this), the results are being reaped today and we are realizing that our whole educational system is in tatters.

Thus, instead of copying the Church educational model, where each religious school has its own autonomous leadership, and give more autonomy to our state schools, the MUT, as it has often done in the past, is insisting more and more on a centralized system.  Finally, what is being implied by these press releases is an open invitation to our Marxist Minister, Evarist Bartolo, to interfere. Why is all this being done? I hope that this is not being done because there is someone in need of information to do a Ph.D or some other degree with one of the f**ked up academic institutions of the UK. We need to acknowledge that where the curriculum is concerned, it was the norm under the previous administration to have educational bureaucrats experiment at the expense of our Maltese pupils, testing some sort of weird system on them.

What this Government should do, in terms of education, is to devolve more power to the teachers. And why not, if one really believes that the teachers are capable professionals? They should be left to create their own curricula according to the needs of their respective schools within national parameters or guidelines according to the respective ethos of these schools. Instead, we have now a Marxist president of a Union of Teachers who is interested in the centralization rather than decentralization of the Church Schools. This explains why it is important that the chosen school leaders are individuals who really believe in the school ethos they join and not simply individuals who are after a remunerative post. Finally, this all boils down to vocation. Is not the teaching profession a vocation? But vocation needs a strong ethos to work properly.

I will turn to history, which is my subject of expertise to give a stunning example how leadership is failing in our State Schools. In a ploy orchestrated by Dolores Cristina and her cronies to destroy the teaching of history in our schools, the subject was deprived of funds. For years, there were no funds for new history textbooks. Finally it was decided to produce a new history book. What did they do? They asked educational leaders to write the book. They ended up producing a textbook for Form 3, which is worse that the previous one. This 'modern' one is scandalous but in Malta, no one protests because this is not about sex or religion.

Here are just two examples from this book. But I can assure you that there are more. The book refers to Erasmus as a heretic. Please note that we are teaching history and not religion. What is worse is that the founder of modern European thought, is described by our secular establishment as heretic. I can assure Mr. Bonello that none of the books produced by the Curia's educational leaders refer to Erasmus as a heretic. I can understand that for the ex-Minister Cristina, Erasmus is an anathema given her family history with the Erasmus exchange-students' scheme (pun intended) but to have secular educational leaders, writing a book and defining Erasmus as heretic is unheard of, both in history and religion. I don't think that Catholic theologians would ever dare to call this Catholic priest a heretic. The same holds for at least one of the pictures produced in this book. One of the pictures shows a stepped street. The underneath caption says that this is a street in Senglea. In reality this is a street in Cospicua!

I would like to exonerate the President of MUT, Mr. Bonello for being a stoic leader but at the same time I wish him to continue doing the good job that he is doing at Wied Il-Ghajn as the President of Wied Il-Ghajn Band Club, working and organizing the feast of St. Anne. But for the good of our nation, I advise him to stay away from giving advice or interfering on how religion and culture in general are managed in our Church Schools. In that case, I am more than ready to shout with Pink Floyd - WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION.