Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Until the passing of the Public Instruction Act in 1880 your chance of an education, if you were not affluent, depended on the work of faith groups through Sunday schools or day schools .
Opposition to Special Religious Education must therefore be based on administration challenges – which should be solvable – or anti-religious prejudice. Given a relentless public focus on religious failings and ignorance of positives, a fall in religious adherence should not be allowed to be the excuse for ignoring wisdom.
At the second school the SRE classes were scheduled on the last lesson on a Monday so that students who opted out could leave early. Most did. SRE classes, having been legislated many years ago, have always been a major issue in schools and it seems the system is certainly outdated and disruptive in today’s world. If advocates for SRE still want to have these classes perhaps they should have them after school.