1. Call for 'post-9/11' RE teaching

Comment #50342 by Father on June 17, 2007 at 2:01 am

In this competitive age many clever children choose to study RE for the following reason;
If you have any intelligence at all, very good grades can be had more easily than in any other subject.
My daughters,"who are atheist", chose to study RE and got very good grades. I quote them here "all you have to do is have an opinion and you get good grades easily". This seems to be the opinion of their classmates also.
Pressure on them for good grades makes them choose subjects that will fill that role.
So, far from being popular because people feel religious, "at least to my knowledge", RE is being studied for easy good grades and, maybe, understanding of the crazy events in world we live in now.