General Article Why do schools sideline religious education?

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RE taught me valuable skills, but it still isn’t taken seriously in schools, writes a student blogger.

By Saema Jaffer

Religious education just isn’t taken seriously at school. It is undervalued and unappreciated. Merged with citizenship and social studies, it sits huddled in a corner at the edge of the humanities office. But it can teach students valuable ways of thinking that help at university and later on in life too.

 

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