Should all public schools in America make the students undertake religious teachings as part of their curriculum?

I was helping with checking my schools laptops ( to see if they were working well) in a classroom that was having a sort of after school christian club.

Let me just say that the school that I go to does have other religions besides christianity being embraced by the students. There is Islam...but I haven't really noticed any other religion being represented/ embraced by the studebts students. I haven't seen any instance of Judaism, Hinduism or really any other religion besides christianity and Islam in my school.

Anyway, I was present in a classroom that was having a sort of christian meet. I listened in and found it to be very interesting, as it comforted the students about loss and educated them on behavior. However, as it went on the person that was speaking ( a very religious teacher) started talking about hell...which I really thought was unnecessary and maybe a bit too mature for a bunch of,what, 6th graders. Then there was the part where he was talking about how other religions were wrong...

This isn't a talk about what that teacher said, so im just going to end it there. However, after the meeting ended I was thinking to myself about how there wasn't another club that educated the student body about other religions (major or lesser. ), and then started to wonder why there was a christian club in the first place. I started wondering why we would even teach the children of my school christianity, when we weren't going to expand their minds to other religions as well.

I believe that religion should be seperate from education being taught in school, as I just don't agree with ones belief dictating what is taught to wide group of kids. I think that creates a sort of educational bias that gears the structure of education towards a specific religious group instead of the entirety of students that attend one or many schools. Not only that, but the teaching of a controlled amount of religion(s) in the curriculum of a student, only for them to go home and have these teachings solidified by the students parent (s), might cause the student to grow up to be closed minded, and incapable of accepting other forms of religions, or even certain factors of the real world, into their life. If in the situation where it was about to be so that religion was about to become a deciding factor in what you or your child would learn during the school day, or if it was becoming so that learning one specific religion ( a religion pre-picked by your school) was about to become mandatory for you or your child to graduate, then how would you react to such? Do you believe that religion should play any role in the education being used in the schools that are located where you live? If you do, then how should it be used and why? If not, then why do you believe so?

Thank you for reading! (:

Submitted February 21, 2017 at 02:12PM by Pkpulsefall http://ift.tt/2m5gx9h