Yeah, I gather some basic religious education is standard in British schools too. I can only guess at the hysteria here i schools were to teach religion.
Parent: I don't want my child learning about Islam and animism and pagan $%^@#$!
Teacher: But we teach about Christianity too.
Parent: But you teach them about Catholicism and Lutheranism and Calvinism--we're BAPTISTS!
Teacher: But we include Baptists in our section on Protestantism... and we don't teach that any of these is *better* than the others; we're just teaching them about all the different faiths equally with no bias.
Well we here gots a government religion. And it never made my life worse than it is, only maybe when shops are closed on sundays and on christian holidays and I ca n't buy more beer (or any other comsumable *ahem*).
It is all so very silly. I know it depends on teacher too, but I learned well of all bigger religions in the country and international smaller things like voudoun etc.
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Date: 2006-05-03 05:23 am (UTC)Here we have geography as standard school education as biology, math etc are. Then again we have religion taught in school too...
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Date: 2006-05-03 12:15 pm (UTC)Parent: I don't want my child learning about Islam and animism and pagan $%^@#$!
Teacher: But we teach about Christianity too.
Parent: But you teach them about Catholicism and Lutheranism and Calvinism--we're BAPTISTS!
Teacher: But we include Baptists in our section on Protestantism... and we don't teach that any of these is *better* than the others; we're just teaching them about all the different faiths equally with no bias.
Parent: That's exactly the PROBLEM!
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Date: 2006-05-03 12:22 pm (UTC)It is all so very silly. I know it depends on teacher too, but I learned well of all bigger religions in the country and international smaller things like voudoun etc.
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Date: 2006-05-03 12:28 pm (UTC)Parent: OMG! WITCHCRAFT! Heather, get you things! We're taking you to Jerry Falwell Secondary School RIGHT NOW!