Thread:Nerdfightergirl/@comment-4287993-20140805094035/@comment-5278765-20140805233553

Must be nice.

Here, it's basically shoved down your throat, though public schools are legally prohibited from endorsing any religion. Some parents are fighting to change that, which bugs me greatly. I had a religious class in ninth grade (at a private school) that I loved because it was called religion, but it was really more of ethical dilemmas, like abortion, adoption, capital punishment, violence in the media. I loved it. If religious classes could be solely about learning the beliefs of world religions (and including Islam, Judaism, basically religions OTHER than Christianity), I would support it being taught in school. But so many of them would just use it as an excuse to preach Christianity to kids. I didn't go to elementary school where I lived in high school, so I never experienced it personally, but I've heard that elementary school kids have "religion" class once a week and it's out in a trailer behind the school because they can't legally do it in the school building. Parents can sign a paper so their kid can opt out, but there's pressure not to do it because that kid will be isolated and have it be known that he or she is a burden because the teacher has to hang around and supervise that kid while the rest of the class is in the trailer.