A post from another site from a QC highschooler who took this course:
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Am an high school student and I am in those same news classes (Éthique et culture religieuse, which basicaly translate into ethic and religious culture) that are mentioned in this article. My only concern about these sorts of "lets just teach the bare facts about what various religious beliefs are, without forcing people to profess belief in them" ideas is that in practice political correctness gets in the way of factual correctness when teaching those "bare facts". For example, do you think they'll be honest enough to accurately describe the concept of Kafirs and Dhimmis when teaching about what Islam's scriptures say? Hell no they won't. They'll instead insist on the lie that there's nothing nasty in any religion's beliefs, and the tests will require people who know better to lie in order to get a good grade.
I'd love to see a class that was actually honest and really taught what the various religious claims really are. But that's just not going to happen. Instead of being honest, they'll water things down to make sure religions are presented with the bad bits filtered out. Don't worry, it's not watered.
Last year, we had to pick a religion or sect and talk about it. Our team chose satanism. It was pretty fun.
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