Do schools teach religion as propaganda like in Arab countries, or philosophy and anti-religious ideas like Nietzsche?

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SlamClick@reddit

Raised in the south and had no religion in school.

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ohmygotchi@reddit

Private schools teach them both, in separate classes.

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Public school does not even mention religion in either light. Also hardly touches on philosophy except outside some books/stories, allegory of the cave for example. You’ll find no nietzsche, no Aristotle, no Buddha or Jesus, nor Descartes.

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JohnMarstonSucks@reddit

Nothing like that, either for or against a particular religion. I still remember the 5 pillars of Islam from sophomore year in high school though.

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manicpixidreamgirl04@reddit

Public schools aren't allowed to either promote religion or discriminate against it.

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OK_Stop_Already@reddit

Uh.. maybe in a weird religious college like Brigham Young University (BYU) but i don't know of any that do like you're talking about.

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DOMSdeluise@reddit

In the public high school I went to there as an elective world religions class and it was just a whole semester of the teacher describing what different major religions believe. Christianity included. No advocacy for any particular faith, just education.

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artemisinagayway@reddit

Public schools aren’t allowed to teach students to believe in a specific religion because of the first amendment. Usually religions get talked about from a historical perspective.

Private schools are allowed to teach a specific religion. Jewish and Catholic schools are probably the most common religious schools. I went to a Jewish private school for elementary and middle, we had religion classes mixed in with regular stuff like English, math and science.

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zaoman@reddit (OP)

That’s eye opening, Thanks!

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Littleboypurple@reddit

They don't at all. Unless you go to a private religious school, Religion is not taught in Public School. It is only really brought up in context related to specific things like Historical Context or Literary Analysis of a written work

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shelwood46@reddit

Religious private schools will sometimes do the propaganda thing, which is often why parents choose to pay to send their children there, but it's supposedly explicitly prohibited in public schools (supposedly). However most schools do some combo of (somewhat neutrally) teaching world religions, and maybe even the bible as literature but also philosophy and literature like Nietzche (though often not until the later grades of high school, or college). They are not supposed to be pushing specific religions, or "anti-religions", at all, that is for some kind of club, not the classroom.

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ToughFriendly9763@reddit

neither

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ElementalPink12@reddit

We read "The Stranger".

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NaturGirl@reddit

I think this different region-to-region, school to school, and even between teachers.

There is "ideally" a separation of church and state that includes the idea that public schools are "state" in that context. However, we know that some states see things differently. Hence the whole 10 Commandments required to be posted in Texas schools now etc.

I've always lived in liberal states and never had any sort of religious teaching whatsoever until I got to college and CHOSE to take a religious studies course. The only religious teaching I ever had in public school was in history and art classes and all very situation specific. It never framed anything in a good or bad way. Just is a sociology/anthropology/history/art kind of way.

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