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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, I'd certainly agree with that. My brother-in-law is an RE teacher (Religious Education, for our friends' benefit) and there's now great stress laid in covering all the major world religions equally. In my day (early 70s) RE just covered Christianity and nothing else.
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In the early 80s, we covered a fair few religions in RE, especially at the start, although bias in terms of time spent was given to Christianity and to a lesser degree Judaism. We did once have to write an essay comparing several of them and from that conclude which one we thought was best. I didn't endear myself to my RE teacher by concluding I preferred the Norse religions and gave as my reason that they had better stories... Thankfully it was only a mandatory subject for a short period of time.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Teaching kids how to think, and giving them a good foundation in several subjects, has always been secondary to teaching them how to sit down & shut up & do as they're told, in US public schools.
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Now that explains an awful lot. On another forum I'm on, someone (an American) was complaining that her child had been excluded because he had asked why he was being singled out for not following a dress code, when others were being ignored. The overwhelming response from other Americans was that he should have just accepted it and obeyed without questioning, and maybe complained through the correct channels later - but that it would probably be better if he didn't. That kind of thinking is absolutely foreign to me, and would have been to most of my contemporaries at school.