More and more students choose not to attend religion time: today One in six prefers to carry out an alternative activity. The number of “exonerated”, as they are often called, has reached the record of one million and 164 thousandwith an increase of 68 thousand compared to last year. As a percentage, it went from 15.5% of the school year 2022-2023 to 16.6% in 2023-2024.
To spread these data is the union of rationalist atheists and agnostics (UAAR), which asked the Ministry of Education and merit for the last update on the choices of students in state schools. The symbolic city of this trend is Florence: here more than half of the students (51.5%) chooses not to follow religion time. The percentages are also high in Bologna (47.3%), Aosta (43.6%), Biella (40.6%), Mantua (40.5%), Brescia (38.6%), Trieste (37.9%) and Turin (37.7%).
As regards the individual institutes, The record goes to Olivetti in Ivrea, where 90.7% of professional students and 87.9% of those of the technician said no At the time of religion, even if it should be considered that, in many cases, the presence of adult students in evening courses can affect the overall percentages. Sassetti-Peruzzi of Florence follow (86.8%), the primary Nazario Sauro of Monfalcone (86.45%) and the Carrara professional institute of Novellara (86.29%). Among the high schools, the Italian primacy goes to Leon Battista Alberti in Florence, with 84.65% of exonerated from the hour of religion.
Among the middle schools, the Rodari of Torre Pellice (83.7%) stands out, while in the kindergarten the highest percentage is recorded at the San Giacomo in Brescia (83.58%). At national level, professional institutes guide the ranking With 27.83% of students who do not follow religion time, followed by technical institutes with 25.31% and, finally, by high schools with 18.48%. Primary, middle and childhood schools are between 15.77% and 12.4%.
Source: Vanity Fair

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