Title: 7 Reasons We Should Teach More Religion in Public Schools - Beliefnet
Headings: 7 Reasons We Should Teach More Religion in Public Schools
7 Reasons We Should Teach More Religion in Public Schools
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2016-06-08 2016-06-08
7 Reasons We Should Teach More Religion in Public Schools
Instruction about world religions needs to start earlier and go deeper. Beliefnet
7 Reasons We Should Teach More Religion in Public Schools
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7 Reasons We Should Teach More Religion in Public Schools
Teachers in the suburban town of Wellesley, Massachusetts spend half the school year teaching the world’s religions to sixth graders. These 11 and 12 year olds learn about major figures, holidays, geography, and beliefs central to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. They take field trips to a mosque and Jewish temple. They debate the pros and cons of not having school on Muslim holidays. High school students in Modesto, California take a world religions class in order to graduate — the only public high school with such a requirement. And at a Wichita, Kansas elementary school, students begin learning simple facts about three different world religions in first grade as per the Core Knowledge curriculum. Many people wrongly view religion as a taboo subject, not to be discussed in America’s public schools. According to a 2010 survey by the Pew Research Center, a little more than half of those polled thought teachers were prohibited from offering a class comparing the world’s religions, while only 36 percent (correctly) thought it was legal to offer such courses. Sure, most Americans know that a 1963 Supreme Court ruling prohibited public school teachers from leading a class in prayer.