(April 8, 2012 at 7:23 am)5thHorseman Wrote: The thing is, RE is important, it's knowledge about religious cultures, which i think it's better to know then live in ignorance, or you'd be as bad as they are. My eldest kid didn't pick it for GCSE and therefore stopped doing it at 14, so I don't see the problem, it isn't enforced at higher level.
It's compulsory to do it in some degree until 16, so my school made it a mandatory GCSE.