Honestly, that sounds like an excellent program to me.
I actually went to Christian schools, which very much had Christianity as the default (hymns and prayer in daily assembly), but our religious education classes did teach us a reasonable amount about other religions, and I remember field trips to a mosque to talk to an imam, and to a Buddhist temple. There may have been others, too. And by year 11 and 12 religious education classes were more about ethics. So pretty good, on the whole (though not as comprehensively inclusive as what you have in mind).
Oddly, my friends in the State system fared much worse and achieved much more of a One True Way religious education...
I remember saying the school prayer in lower primary school, but that got abandoned in state schools by the time I was in about year 3. Christmas was still a big thing, though.
I agree with you totally. I don't see why we can't teach children about a large variety of religions. Understanding will only help people, rather than push them apart.
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I actually went to Christian schools, which very much had Christianity as the default (hymns and prayer in daily assembly), but our religious education classes did teach us a reasonable amount about other religions, and I remember field trips to a mosque to talk to an imam, and to a Buddhist temple. There may have been others, too. And by year 11 and 12 religious education classes were more about ethics. So pretty good, on the whole (though not as comprehensively inclusive as what you have in mind).
Oddly, my friends in the State system fared much worse and achieved much more of a One True Way religious education...
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