Posted: Mar 25, 2010 11:21 pm
I can understand you not wanting your child to be singled out, and to be honest, what you're telling her at home is clearly FAR more important than that stuff - from discussions at home, she can always take back some challenging questions to the RE teacher, and make that teacher accountable for his/her superstitious beliefs. For me, the issue is when they start bringing home coloured-in comic strips of Jesus walking on water, and telling me all about how it really happened. I guess it's a good opportunity to teach critical thinking, but I'd rather it just wasn't there in the public school system at all.
Virphen - when I was at school, the non-RE kids went to the library and read books, or relaxed and chatted. There weren't many of us, and I went there some years, but mostly I asked my (atheist) parents to let me go to RE so I could be with the rest of my class. I spent RE telling the "teacher" what a load of rubbish it all was, and I like to think I undermined the propaganda sufficiently for my classmates. Maybe.
I still think religion has no place in education, except in the objective "it exists as part of our culture" sense.
Virphen - when I was at school, the non-RE kids went to the library and read books, or relaxed and chatted. There weren't many of us, and I went there some years, but mostly I asked my (atheist) parents to let me go to RE so I could be with the rest of my class. I spent RE telling the "teacher" what a load of rubbish it all was, and I like to think I undermined the propaganda sufficiently for my classmates. Maybe.
I still think religion has no place in education, except in the objective "it exists as part of our culture" sense.