The master's thesis examines issues in the field of education in public school, which are related to ensuring the right of parents to educate and teach their children in
conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions, as derives from the provision of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention for the Protection of Human
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1954).
Initially we defined the concept of education and shown that public school cannot avoid its task of the transmission of values, which is constitutive part of education. The values
that pupils are facing with in public school may conflict with values and convictions of their parents, but as we want to show in the thesis, the subjective judgements of parents do not lead to conclusion, that their right has really been violated. Based on the official interpretation of the aforementioned right we have shown what are the key principles that public school must take into account in its educational work, so that this right will be respected. We argued that the right of parents safeguarded against
indoctrination, not against acquiring knowledge. Thus, that means that educational work in public school must be based on respect for the principles of objectivity, criticality and plurality. In connection with the latter, we have shown that teachers must allow for the plurality of values and convictions, whereby the limit of the expression of
individual values and convictions is always represented by a common framework of values that derives from the formal framework that objectively determines the functioning of the public school.
Furthermore, we have shown which issues related to educational work in public school are addressed by parents' complaints to the European Court of Human Rights, and we
also presented two of the parents' complaints in detail.
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