No!
We had good rules until Kavanaugh and Gorsuch joined SCOTUS.
Biggest problem has been people blatantly breaking the law and no one doing anything about it.

LMAO! That cat makes my day.

This is a strange situation that likely depends on your geographic location. I don't think that the humanities are the enemy of the hard sciences. Especially in academic circles. (My sympathies on 12 years of indoctrination. You must have an inner strength of steel. That sounds rough.)

From what I can tell, it's better to have (in this case, religions) in an "academic" circle than at "home." At least you get a better chance of broader exposure to different ideas and without the auspicious overtones. In Europe and Australia where religion is a given, nobody attends churches/mosques. In the US, where it is verboten outside of private schools, there is a strong radicalized religious culture in certain areas.

I will echo the other minds who have already said, "teaching the history of religions," whether you call it social studies or the humanities, would probably be the most popular with students and the best way to shed light on the sham of religions.

Once you know how to identify iconography/propaganda/smoke and mirrors, you can't not see it.

This gets into the weeds of many educational systems. When is knowledge a luxury? There are only so many hours/staff in a school day. If it's not going to be on a standardized test, for most students in the world now, you probably won't have to worry about it being taught.

There is no academically accepted parameter for differentiation of a religion vs. a mythology. If more people understood that, the world might be a little kinder place to be.

Schools, other than those utterly ridiculously ones owned and operated by Religions that is, ARE for Educating Children with the Facts,Truths, Sciences, etc, etc, and for 'force-feeding them with Superstitious garbages like religions imo.

Religion ... pure and faultless is this: to help widows and orphans in need and avoiding worldly corruption. James 1:27

Why call anything a religion that has nothing to do with helping widows and orphans while avoiding worldly corruption?

I'm a child of the 60's/early 70's. 9th grade Language Arts. We studied the Old Testament and Greek/Roman mythology as part of the same unit. Lots of comparing and contrasting. It was fantastic. Convinced me even more how ridiculous religion truly was.

Teach ALL religions from an objective viewpoint.
When scamgelicals talk about freedom of religion, what they mean is really he "right" to preach their religion and shut out any othrers (and, of course, to discriminate).

If you're not familiar with Mrs Betty Bowers on youtube, look her up.

I think the evangelicals in the US would love to have religion taught in public schools ...as long as it’s theirs. Anything else would be a big Nuh uh.

I’m all for it. My first serious doubts came in the 3rd grade when we studied the Eskimo culture and I realized that had I been born there I would have believed their religion. My immediate response was to feel thankful I had been born into the “true religion”, but soon I had the disturbing realization: If I had been born there I would be thankful I had been born into that “true religion.”

Good thought

Maybe in the context of a History class, alongside the the other cultural conflicts and consequences. Teach them about the wars and persecution, not just the romantic stuff.

Religion is a subject like any other, It should be taught in schools but pupils should be taught about them and not told to believe, indoctrination has no part in education.

Unless you go to a Catholic School, all State secondary schools in the UK teach RE as a comparative subject, and even in the RC schools, comparative religion is taught as a subject alongside their normal Catholic ethos, due to them having to follow the National Curriculum.. It’s often seen as an easy or soft subject to choose at “A level” and is quite popular for that reason.

That's what happens in my granddaughter's school, in England. An overview of belief systems, present and past.

I went to school in Sweden and we were thought about all religions. It was interesting.

Sounds good.

A friend has two kids that went to HS in town and took the religion class. The class covered many religious. As a result, according to the older son, by the end of the class in addition to himself, all the classmates had become atheists.

Well said. It would give the world a better sense of originality and make people formulate their own thoughts and perspective.

As a former teacher, I've long felt that teaching the history of religions (not religious history) in the public schools as a secular, comparative (similarities and uniquenesses) examination, might actually open the eyes of many.

All beliefs but wouldn't have time for all. I say none. That is a personal quest

Exactly. Give kids room to make up their own minds rather than forcing shit on them.