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I bet the lack of a national curriculum - that banishes religion from everything except religious classes has something to do with the US results. Here in the

by toble 13y ago

I bet the lack of a national curriculum - that banishes religion from everything except religious classes has something to do with the US results. Here in the UK we are slowly degenerating by allowing schools to have more freedom, so religious groups are having increased influence on standard state schools.

Gormo 13y ago
There's no national curriculum in the US, but religion most certainly is "banished" from state schools. Not even excepting religious classes - there aren't any such classes in state-operated schools, at least not any that I've ever heard of. Treating school systems as the primary mechanism for transmitting cultural memes, and attributing social attitudes to its functions, seems a very bizarre position. In fact, if anything, the exact reverse may be the case: by not permitting religion to have any state-supported expression, it ensures that religion is sustained and advanced by civil society itself, which yields a much more vigorous and energetic religious sphere in American culture than you'd see in countries where religion is mediated and subdued by politics.