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14th March 2009, 04:30 PM
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Re: Religion in Schools and the Effect on Students
Well, like Heald, I grew up in the UK's school system. Only in my high school, we had assembly every morning, which included prayer and a hymn. Not sure how long they carried the hymns on for, but I was never particularly keen on them. Um, lessee. Oh yeah, my school had quite a lot of muslims in (yeah yeah, poorer area, whatevs), but it was nowhere near the scale of some of the other schools nearby. One of them, I heard, only had about 5 white people in the whole school year. But the school wasn't religious, I don't think.
As for RE (religious education), well, I was one of the very few (about 7 of us) who loved the subject. I haven't had any exposure to religion - my mum isn't religious, in fact, I think only my great grandmas are, and that's cos they're like... 90. So I was really interested to learn about all the different ones. We did uh, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism and possibly more, up until year 10 when we chose our options and I went for full course RE, where we did half and half, Christianity and Buddhism. We actually had two Buddhist teachers too, which was awesome. They were really cool and nice, and not at all prejudiced or anything.
As far as I remember, there was no prejudice against particular religions, although there was a lot of racial prejudice. Also I have no idea what the muslim kids did during the prayers, etc. I think they were excused? Not sure.
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