2. The peculiarity of morality courses

One thing that isn't on the job description, but you constantly must do as a morality teacher, is explaining what the course is about. Not only to foreigners who don't understand the Belgian concept of world view courses, or to kids who follow one of the religious courses, but also to parents who send their children to the morality course. The obvious reason is that these parents themselves have had an education at Catholic schools (the majority of Belgian schools are Catholic), but aren't religious. The choice for the morality course is obvious in that case, but they haven't got the faintest idea what one does during those two hours every week.
Sometimes I forget what I'm supposed to teach. I am a child of a Catholic upbringing myself, studied ethics and morality out of interest, and only ended up teaching because there was a job available. I found myself liking to work with the little ones and intend to do it for a while longer. It is indeed time to write down what this course is that I spend so much time preparing and teaching every week (I teach 24 hours for a full time) – for your sake, but also for mine.

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