The organization “Young Barristers” appeals to the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia with the request to add the subject of religion in the list of optional subjects of the public schools. The organization has already signed the petition, which was sent to the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, Tamar Sanikidze by 42 non-governmental organizations, on 5 December 2014.

According to statement of co-founder and chief-executive of the “Young Barristers” – Archil Kaikatsishvili, the organization fully shares the view of the signatories of the petition, according to which, by the Constitutional Agreement between the State and the Georgian Orthodox Church, the State takes responsibility to allow the people willing to get Orthodox education in schools in full compliance with the principles of voluntariness, and today, the list of subjects to be elected voluntarily by pupils and parents, Orthodox and Christian morality principles teaching are not included, which significantly limits the possibility of choice.

There are many cases, when part of parents and students, in particular schools, demanded Orthodox teaching, but their wish was not satisfied by the decision of the public school. Until the issue of teaching or not teaching Orthodox subject in public schools will be decided by the school management, the requirement of the Constitutional Agreement cannot be fulfilled, still be violated the constitutional rights of citizens, representatives of majority religious society will not be able to get the religious education, therefore will get worse the dangers of the religious unawareness faced by today's society.

"Due to existing circumstance, we face an immediate task to introduce the Orthodox and Christian morality principles as an academic discipline in public schools. It should be noted that to legalize the practice of the selective-confessional religious teaching is not incompatible with the European values. On the contrary, such a positive precedents recorded in many of the EU, as a major founder, and later integrated into the states - Austria, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and other "- said in the petition of NGOs.

Nongovernmental organizations asks to the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, within the framework of the initiative, with the request of meeting and the dialogue between them.

The mentioned initiative has made known to the public by the "Young Barristers”" with the signatories of the petition Davit Khurashvili (student of the Tbilisi State University, author of the initiative) and Nana Sharashidze (the organization “Woman, Children, Society”). As already mentioned above, the appeal is shared by 42 non-governmental organizations and also the coalition, in which more than 200 non-governmental organizations are united.