All schools should be secular institutions. The religious should be kept at arms length from all children. They indoctrinate their minds and in certain cases have violated their innocent bodies. Schools should be places of learning and enlightenment not brain- washing centres for religious zealots. World religions should be taught as a subject to be looked at and analysed objectively as any other subject would. Parents of course pass on their beliefs to their children and we can’t do much about that, but at least at school children would be able see it from a more balanced point of view. To quote Richard Dawkins.....There are no such things as Christian or Muslim children, only children.

Mentioned, not taught.

None.

Only in the context of a history lesson.

Taught? No. Taught about? Yes. Children need to know how to spot crazy people for their own safety.

Absolutely NO! I don't want My (or for that matter anyone's children) being propagated to. If it is taught like a social studies or history class ok, otherwise leave it to Sunday between 9:00 & 1:00, after all, I gotta catch the Licqour store before it gets too crowded.

Only as a course looking at and thinking critically about all religions.

As a topic in SS, yes. As a replacement for science or as an alternative to science, no. As a topic in SS, it should be religions I.e., Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity....

Nope. School is about learning. You should learn as much about religion at school as you do politics. Historical context only as it shapes the world

I would agree to learn about all the religious practices in school as a comparative study. And that would include the complete history of each.

No - if parents want to send/take their children to church fine by me, not my life, but not compulsorarily in school.

Not in the public domain, unless it is a comparative studies and includes the rejection of main stream religion and doesn't brush over near a billion believes in some form of Nativism. I taught at a Catholic school for a few years. There was a religious teacher there with whom I had a fond friendship. I liked that he taught a class on ethics using at least one text from a Holocaust survivor. There are times, especially in teaching literature that one needs explain certain works by their religious symbolism. At that point, you are a commentary, not a preacher. Although, when teaching an African author like Achebe, it is okay to point out and annotate his attacks on religion, Christian and Islamic, who did harm in their efforts to colonize and change whole societies.

Religion may be taught as literature, in combination with other fictions and fairy tales, and it may be taught as something that people do or did at one time believe, such as Greek, Roman, and other mythologies. It should not be taught as factual or as something to be believed, especially not as a required belief. That latter is for parents or churches to handle. I myself would not allow it to be taught in that way to children at all, but only to older youths or young adults, after a thorough grounding in science and logic.

What religion would you teach?

Sure, we spent 2 days on Greek/Roman Mythology in 6th grade.

I am against any religious school indoctrination for people below age 18. Teach them how to think not what to sound ridiculous when saying to other people.

The context of religion however is relevant to many topics, just don't call the myth truth.

The teachings of multiple religions yes. The teaching of one religion no.

The US Constitution guarantees separation of church and state. and NO religion should be taught in public schools. NONENot! comparative religion course, nothing.

Certainly the philosophy of religion can be taught but not the facts of religion ie creation by a higher being, Christian idea's of creation and the death of a man to forgive us all our "sins" whatever that is.
It should be about all religions and their beliefs and possibly showing how wrong they are.

I think world religions should be taught in school. Basically a class that explains the origin of religions, the basic tenets of the religion, and the size of the religion. I can tell you as a teacher that nobody wants this to be taught in schools. They want their sect or beliefs taught. If public schools suddenly started teaching religion, there would be such a war over what was taught, that nothing would be taught.

Religion no, religions yes, particularly comparative studies. Ignorance is dangerous

Absolutely not, unless it is specifically to show that it is purely myth and detrimental to society.

Ignoring religion in schools is similar to ignoring the history of human civilization. Keeping children ignorant should not be the role of schools.

Not teach religion per se. But saying, "some people believe" is just teaching kids about the world and what to expect from it. ?

Of course not. not in public schools, anyway, paid for with our tax dollars. that violates the separation of church and state. teaching children that religions exist, where they came from, what they mean and how they differ can be taught in schools. that's not the same thing as teaching religion. not teaching religion is not the same as ignoring anything. it's the same as obeying the law. teaching ABOUT religion and teaching religion are not the same thing.

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It should be taught as a unit that you can chose