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As Volonia is a deeply religious society that maintains a close relationship with the Catholic Church, the vast majority of schools in the country have religious studies classes which are mandatory unless a student or their parents request to be opted out of those classes. This opt-out was a more recent addition, having been added in 1989 by the Justice and Progress Party government to strengthen religious freedoms, but subsequent governments have made the pre-requisites for an opt-out more stringent with the only reasoning that is consistently accepted being if the student in question is of a different faith from that of the Catholic Church. Irreligious students (and their parents if said parents are also irreligious) have reported having had their opt-out requests denied on the basis of perceived fraud, and some have even reported having never been given a follow-through on whether or not their opt-out requests have been accepted or rejected. Irreligious people and those among the political left have criticized this as the Volonian state enforcing the Catholic faith onto students, something which the Volonian government has vehemently denied over the years.