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Originally Posted by PixieSunBelle
School needs to be longer each day. You can teach things broadly at first. Thats what beginner classes are.
Schools need to present ALL religions to children and what they are not tout one or the other. You can teach the basis of Christianity without teaching its history right away. Its presenting unbiased information. That being said if more data is to be presented then school simply needs to be longer in the day or go longer. It can be done. There is time. People just don't want to make the time.
You can't trust that ALL parents know about all of the religions in the world or even understand them all to present unbiased information to their children. Most parents will just raise kids in whatever they believe which in turn shape their children into prejudiced little pricks with misconceptions.
Yes I am aware of separation between church and state but unbiased information is unbiased so I believe that that hardly counts. There is a fine line and I am all for teachers being fired for crossing it.
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When religion is concerned, there is no such thing as unbiased information. Christians are taught by their religion that their religion is the only correct one...therefore any discussion of another religion is through the lens of "these people are stupid for believing this but..." It's not universal, but it happens. And I'm not saying that parents should be theology scholars, but that they should take an active role in the religious education of their children. If your child has a question about religion and you don't know the answer, take your child to someone who DOES know the answer, or go to the library and read a book WITH your child. This is parent/child bonding AND educational for both parties. Where's the downside here?
Typically speaking, the human brain can only absorb so much information at one time. For language acquisition (this is the only one I actually have the number for on hand) this time limit is 1 hour, give or take. Past that, you're not really doing anything productive. In addition, most students are in school from 8AM to 3PM, then have an extra hour or two of extracurricular activities (whether those are sports, clubs, theatre, chorus, church, whatever) and will still have homework, chores, and still needs to take care of the basic life functions like sleep, eating, and bathing. If you put this religion class at the end of the day, no one will pay attention because their brains are literally incapable of absorbing any more information without a break of some kind. If you put it before lunch, they won't listen because they're hungry. If you put it any other time, you're shoving ACTUAL education out of the way for something that has historically been the responsibility of the parents and community exclusive of their academic education.