Yea, I went to an integrated school though, so it was Genuine religious studies and not brainwashing that gets taught in Catholic schools here
Were you taught Religious Studies at school?
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UK, and yes we were taught about many of the worlds religeons in PSRE(Personal Social Religeous Education) and we learnt about the History of Islam in lower school history Classes (Pre-GCSE years).
USA near DC -Highschool 10th grade
Nope ~ well sorta
Unless you count history class which he had in spades, it was no where to be found, and I can't say it was really an issue for anyone. There "used to" be a big separation of beliefs vs school thing. You went to school for the standard stuff and stuff pertaining to scripture and all of that was delegated to outside the classroom.
In AP world history though they wove that stuff strait into the curriculum. We technically spent 3 months on Islam, Zoroastrianism, ect. and whatever the Sumerians were up to, because the history book started at the fertile crescent.
Nope ~ well sorta
Unless you count history class which he had in spades, it was no where to be found, and I can't say it was really an issue for anyone. There "used to" be a big separation of beliefs vs school thing. You went to school for the standard stuff and stuff pertaining to scripture and all of that was delegated to outside the classroom.
In AP world history though they wove that stuff strait into the curriculum. We technically spent 3 months on Islam, Zoroastrianism, ect. and whatever the Sumerians were up to, because the history book started at the fertile crescent.
Yep. As a regular school in the UK, the teachers were strictly forbidden from preaching and such. Most of what we did was Christian-focused, but I guess that makes sense since it's the dominant religion of the country. But yeah, it's not all overzealous preachers trying to convert their schools, thankfully.
Honestly, I think it's good that we did, since we learned how each of the main religions actually worked, rather than being left to work with assumption. And since we were 80% atheist, it'd probably be religions-are-all-evil-even-though-I-know-nothing-about-them assumption, given standard teenage angst against the Man.
Honestly, I think it's good that we did, since we learned how each of the main religions actually worked, rather than being left to work with assumption. And since we were 80% atheist, it'd probably be religions-are-all-evil-even-though-I-know-nothing-about-them assumption, given standard teenage angst against the Man.
In elementary school the local minister came every two weeks I think to teach us something about all sorts of religions. (He couldn't keep any order in class at all though)
I went to a public High school so obviously I wasn't teached about any religon after that.
I went to a public High school so obviously I wasn't teached about any religon after that.
I went to a Church of England primary school, so there was lots of religion. In secondary school we studied all the major religions, but for some reason our teacher got the sack and the school didn't bother to find a replacement, so we had a supply teacher who just put on Lord of the Rings every lesson. I somehow didn't fail the GCSE exam for RE although with exams now its almost impossible to fail them...
i live in finland, and we HAD religion every year from 1-9. me being orthodox did not help abit, as finnish main religion is lutheran, which meant our lessons were outside of normal school hours. in upper secondary we were forced to take 2 courses(1 cource, 38 hours of classroom study), but seeing as i did not want to have school from 8 in the morning to 6 in the evening, i opted to take lutheran religion, as opposed to orthodox
and both options sucked just as much, cos the teachers were rather boring anyway
and both options sucked just as much, cos the teachers were rather boring anyway
Yes, we learned about all kinds of different religions and how to compare their ideologies. It rocked, I was good at it and my teacher was epic. However I decided to do maths and sciences in my A-Levels because everyone kept asking what kind of job a humanities grade would get me and I had no clue at 15-18.
Life kind of went a bit skewiff and I've been struggling a bit more than I should have done ever since.
Life kind of went a bit skewiff and I've been struggling a bit more than I should have done ever since.
Same as OP for primary school at least, but I think we only learned about Christianity (mainly the difference between Catholicism, Protestantism and the 9 billion other off shoots) Islam and Judiasm. We were also technically a CoS school (Only a handful of kids out of the 200ish student body actually went to church), so we had services for easter/christmas and sang hymns at every assembly.
At secondary school, we never got an exam on Religious and Moral Studies but it was still required teaching (two hours a week?) in the curriculum, we just got to watch "moral" movies, like Equilibrium, Vera Drake and 10 Rillington Place.
It was actually all quite good stuff.
EDIT: Should probably note, This was in Scotland and the type of education emphasised the studies. Apart from the bi-annual church visit and hymn singing in primary school, we were taught from a purely objective stand point. It was the this is what they think and why. When talking about christianities, it was more, this is how they differ, why and how that shaped the world today.
At secondary school, we never got an exam on Religious and Moral Studies but it was still required teaching (two hours a week?) in the curriculum, we just got to watch "moral" movies, like Equilibrium, Vera Drake and 10 Rillington Place.
It was actually all quite good stuff.
EDIT: Should probably note, This was in Scotland and the type of education emphasised the studies. Apart from the bi-annual church visit and hymn singing in primary school, we were taught from a purely objective stand point. It was the this is what they think and why. When talking about christianities, it was more, this is how they differ, why and how that shaped the world today.
Uk here and yeah I did RE up until Year nine where afterwards unless you picked it as a GCSE you didn't have to do it, in primary school we focused on Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism but oddly we learned nothing of Islam at all in fact I don't think it was until 2001 that I was even told of its existence.
Here, we have a subject called "Religion", and it's basically 45 minutes of Catholic Church indoctrination. It's usually taught by a nun or a priest. And it's taught until you finish the last part of the mandatory learning system. My country is awesome.
I'm from Sweden and we had religious studies in 6th, 8th and 12th grade. (At age 12, 14 and 18.)
We studied Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, various cults and Norse mythlogy. We leared about their history, their traditions and their beliefs. Nothing too in depth though.
We studied Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, various cults and Norse mythlogy. We leared about their history, their traditions and their beliefs. Nothing too in depth though.
Yes. 4th - 9th grade it was kind of mixed with Social Studies and Geography ("Social Orientering" as it was called), then I had a dedicated class in 12th grade. It consistently was very much secular, teaching us the history, major philosophical ideas and the spread of the religion. We mostly did world religions, though we also had a fair bit of Norse mythology, a part where we studied any mythology (most chose Greek, Roman or Egyptian) and for the course in 12th grade we also did some work on Christian cults. Why Christian? Because there's a lot of them.
Our religious studies teacher in 12th grade was a former pastor and actually pretty hostile to religion, making fun of the Bible and the commandments ("Good thing God didn't include slavery or rape, much more important to make sure nobody tries to paint a picture of him") in our very first class.
Our religious studies teacher in 12th grade was a former pastor and actually pretty hostile to religion, making fun of the Bible and the commandments ("Good thing God didn't include slavery or rape, much more important to make sure nobody tries to paint a picture of him") in our very first class.
UK, I went to a Roman Catholic pirmary school where we went to church every week (I spent most of my hours there changing the hymn words to 'poo' and 'wee', as is tradition amongst primary schoolchildren). Since then I have been an athiest.
In secondary school Religious Education was mandatory from ages 11- 16 (up until 6th Form). It was the only GCSE I got an A* in, which was mildly worrying as I didn't listen for the entire course and didn't bother revising whatsoever.
In secondary school Religious Education was mandatory from ages 11- 16 (up until 6th Form). It was the only GCSE I got an A* in, which was mildly worrying as I didn't listen for the entire course and didn't bother revising whatsoever.
From the U.K again, and yup we mostly did a general rundown of a number of different major religions in secondary school, their holidays, religious practices etc.
It was also compulsory in the year we were doing GCSE's however we just watched movies at that point (which was quite nice since it was the last lesson on a friday and just after PE (Physical Education (aka sports and stuff)).
It was also compulsory in the year we were doing GCSE's however we just watched movies at that point (which was quite nice since it was the last lesson on a friday and just after PE (Physical Education (aka sports and stuff)).
Ha!, Oh... those were the days....
It all started off in primary school. Now I went to a Catholic primary school, Lots of good that did, Im about as Atheist as you get.... I dont remember much of those years other than we did hymns evey day -.- so fast forward to secondary school where for 5 school years, I just mocked and listened to fuck all the teacher said, and in year 11 I would have got kicked out every other lesson because I just challenged my teacher or made fun of the theories.
I got a D for GCSE, wasn't bothered at all, it was the only grade I got that was below a C for my GCSE's
It all started off in primary school. Now I went to a Catholic primary school, Lots of good that did, Im about as Atheist as you get.... I dont remember much of those years other than we did hymns evey day -.- so fast forward to secondary school where for 5 school years, I just mocked and listened to fuck all the teacher said, and in year 11 I would have got kicked out every other lesson because I just challenged my teacher or made fun of the theories.
I got a D for GCSE, wasn't bothered at all, it was the only grade I got that was below a C for my GCSE's
Throughout my primary and high school education they taught us Religious Education. However I was the only kid on record to have never attended one of these classes through my dads request.
Couldn't tell you what they taught, however if you picked on a contradiction from the bible to one of these teachers they go ape shit.
Currently in the sixth form from said high school. In my first year I had stay 30 minutes after one of my classes to explain how I am not religious in any form, how I have never believed or ever will believe in any form of all powerful entity / being and that I believe shit just happens.
I really dislike religious nuts.
Couldn't tell you what they taught, however if you picked on a contradiction from the bible to one of these teachers they go ape shit.
Currently in the sixth form from said high school. In my first year I had stay 30 minutes after one of my classes to explain how I am not religious in any form, how I have never believed or ever will believe in any form of all powerful entity / being and that I believe shit just happens.
I really dislike religious nuts.