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Sopho
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28 May 2007, 12:19 pm

What does everyone think about this?
In my school, we had to continue with RE right up until the end of year 11 (aged 16). Yet it was possible to drop History in year 9. I found it to be unnecessary really. I got As on everything I did, but I never felt that I learned anything. Would it not be better to instead have some kind of course which inorporated religious beliefs into it, but also covered other belief systems, political philosophies etc?



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28 May 2007, 1:19 pm

Religious education? It depends on what the school is affiliated with. If it is a government run school then there should not be religious education, maybe a broader option like you mentioned would be fine. If it is a private school then it can do whatever it wants in terms of religious education.



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28 May 2007, 1:24 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Religious education? It depends on what the school is affiliated with. If it is a government run school then there should not be religious education, maybe a broader option like you mentioned would be fine. If it is a private school then it can do whatever it wants in terms of religious education.

I went to a mixed 11-16/18 grammar school. It wasn't a private school but they bloody acted like it sometimes.



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29 May 2007, 9:17 am

Sopho wrote:
What does everyone think about this?
In my school, we had to continue with RE right up until the end of year 11 (aged 16). Yet it was possible to drop History in year 9. I found it to be unnecessary really. I got As on everything I did, but I never felt that I learned anything. Would it not be better to instead have some kind of course which inorporated religious beliefs into it, but also covered other belief systems, political philosophies etc?


RE did incorporate non-theist belief systems, general philosophy and other ethical matters, at my school anyway.