To think Religious education in schools should be replaced by AI education

[IsitRainin]

Looking at how quickly AI is advancing, our education system needs to be overhauled.
There's no benefit of subjects like Religious education in today's world and people can learn about it from their family. This should be replaced by AI studies and other STEM subjects which will prepare the Children to be ready and up to date with future advancement and at par with children from China, USA and rest of the world.

You clearly have no understanding of modern RE, which is much more about ethics at secondary level.
Id personally replace MFL

With increasing numbers of people identifying as non religious and atheist, there is no benefit of shoving religion down young children's throats.
We need to teach kids about AI and STEM, which will lead to something useful in their lives.

Financial education would be useful for all children. Mortgages, taxes, pensions, saving, investing etc etc.

Some of us are RE teachers and the modern syllabus includes non religious views and humanism. I think those of us who do this day in and day out know more about what is actually taught than you do

Already statutory on the citizenship curriculum

@Absentmindedsmile absolutely agree

It’s already taught

Are you a teacher op ? If so, how many years and what subject ?

Religion isn't shoved down children's throats in school RE lessons. They learn about the religions and systems of ethics that have formed our societies over thousands of tears

You're one of those posters who have no idea what you're talking about and no willingness to learn, aren't you.
There's no point explaining why you're wrong and why the subject called religion, PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS should be kept on the curriculum is there.

Did you really just suggest the USA education system is better than ours?

Still UK is far behind in AI race with no significant LLM of their own.

Why is "shoving" AI and STEM subjects down young children 's throats ok?

The USA does not teach RE and look at the religious nutters influencing policy over there - modern RE is about tolerance and respect as well as ethical issues. There’s a lot of politics, law and sociology involved.
You’re making sweeping statements on a subject you clearly know nothing about

Why replace RE rather than just add AI understanding to the curriculum?!

RE is not “shoving religion down people’s throats” it’s about educating children about different religions, perspectives, belief systems and teach them that it’s important to respect and learn about people from all backgrounds including their own and the foundations upon which modern ethical, political and social constructs are based!

Critical thinking is needed more than ever, AI would actually be better utilised for subjects where the answer is absolute so it doesnt reply on opinions, bias and feeding from random data sets- RE also doesnt take up a tonne of teaching time.

Financial education would be useful for all children. Mortgages, taxes, pensions, saving, investing etc etc.

Not much point really, teenagers wont pay much attention and even if they do things will probably be different by the time they are in a position financially to do this. The Internet you are a fan of is good for this, or parents.

We need to teach kids about AI and STEM,

Which subjects are you encompassing in this?

RE isn’t about ‘shoving religion down children’s throats’. It’s to make them aware of what some people believe and have faith in, it’s to foster respect for opposing views and beliefs and encourages healthy debate. It also ensures that to be prepared to live in the modern world you have a degree of understanding so that you don’t inadvertently cause offence to somebody who is religious.

I am not religious at all and believe in no God but I’m not so ignorant and naive that I can’t see the value of a religious education.

You seem to very misinformed about why RE is on the curriculum. It’s worth doing some reading or research before proposing an ignorant post.

Children learn about religions, they don’t learn that this or that religion in the only true religion.

It’s a very parochial take that because more white British people are identifying as non-religious, children shouldn’t learn about religion. And all British children should have a solid understanding of Christianity as it underpins much of our history, culture
and institutions.

I agree AI should be taught. But taught as well as, not instead of.

Yes, it's way better than UK education system. They have got all the amazing AI companies like OpenAI etc. They are leading all the tech advancements and innovation while we are sat here teaching religion.

They learn the basics of financial stuff in maths and PSHE. However, the average 14 year old has no interest at all in pensions - when you were that age, did you look ahead to your sixties? They tend to only care about things that are immediately and obviously relevant to them. We can try to teach them, but they won’t retain the information (which would possibly be completely outdated by the time it became relevant to them).

The American system is better ???? You’re just trolling now, nice try

Nice try OP

So they can make a living in future.

Trolly McTrollface

How do they learn to consider the ethics of AI if they haven't had, oh, I don't know - maybe some education in Ethics?