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I wonder how many parents actually care if kids go to, say, a Catholic school over 'I want them to have a good education'.

It's laughable these days anyway; we've never been so secular. The only religion in the UK that seems to be doing well is the perversion espoused by the likes of Anjem Choudary to people I can only assume are mentally/psychologically fragile.

My wife's Cathloic (I'm not). She would have likes our sons to go to a Catholic school, but the one nearest us is poor and we heard bad things from parents who have children there. Much to my delight we agreed to send them to the good local school at the bottom of our road instead.

When I was at school, we studied Christianity as the main religion (not Anglican or Catholic specifically) and then followed that up with looks at other major religions, such as Buddhism, Islam etc.

Purely Christianity here, no mention of the other religions at all. We were more 'morality and what is a Christian?'.

RE at our secondary school was a joke. The school made us to GCSE RE as we had to do some legally anyway. Every other GCSE subjest had three lessons a week. RE only had two. Shows how seriously they were taking it.

My "Big" school was Christian and I don't remember much of anything else being discussed. Having said that you could drop RE was soon as you hit the 3rd form and started work on your O levels in earnest (which I did)

Our RE consisted of a dry old bint reading from the bible and trying to convince us that Christianity was the way forward.

I remember one solitary class where we discussed Hinduism, and we once visited a Sikh temple - both interesting, both presumably to meet some bare criteria in the curriculum. The rest of the time it was a pure, undisguised, attempt at Christian indoctrination. Plenty of religion, very little education.

After the first year, I spent a lot of time outside the deputy head's office during RE class - the old bint didn't care for the questions I asked, or my attitude, apparently (I was a thirteen year old boy who wouldn't swallow a word of the crap she was pedalling, so of course I was a bit of a tw@t about it) . The deputy head was refreshingly understanding about it all, and often sent me to "study" in the library until that class was finished.

I don't recall a single RE lesson ever happening to me. Was my school eccentric?

I remember a bit of RE and it being a waste of time for everyone concerned. I didn't take it GCSE and don't remember if it was even an option.

IIRC my and my best mate at the time used to sit at the back and play battleships

I went to a Catholic boarding school as a day student until I was 15 but religion was very loosely enforced (I just found out Catholics arent meant to use contraception or masturbate ).
We could tick to do the rites while in education and wasted a year learning choreography for the communion ceremony
Saying that we did study other religion but as part of the history course. RE was only Catholicism.

I don't remember much about RE at school.
We did get a trip to the Glasgow Central Mosque so it defintiely wasn't all about Christianity.

At our school, RE was CofE all the way. One year we did “other faiths” but it was presented in a perspective that went along the lines of “they do that, we do this”. Hardly surprising, given the teacher was a CofE vicar. You certainly weren’t allowed to question Christianity at all.

Considering I went to a private school that was so staunchly C of E we had 4 cathedral services a year and the Bishop of Chester was on the board of governors, we had a surprisingly broad and non-biased RE education. First three years covered all 6 of the largest religions, and for those that went on to do GCSE, it was 2 years of ethics and with no comparative religion at all.

I went to a school run by Catholic priests. As you might imagine, R.E. wasn't exactly a broad topic