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.

Children not understanding different beliefs, and differences in general, is what creates a lot of intolerance. Too many people live in their little bubble and don’t understand others which makes it very hard to teach their children. It leads to intolerance being passed from generation to generation.

RE (which is different from any sort of worship) is vital.

Oh dear, lots of different kinds of professions are needed, not just AI jobs.

Surely nothing should be "shoved down children 's throats"?

Op, what an absolute sack of shit thread you have started.

Even China has better education system than ours. People who are calling me troll are just so delusional that they can't accept that other countries have better education systems and better workforce than ours.

Why the hate for RE? I just don't get it. I've been a teacher for 25 years and it's the one subject parents are most touchy about (for info I'm not and RE teacher). They seem to think mids sit in their lessons being indoctrinated.

I'm an atheist and don't believe in god at all. However a quick Google tells me around 85% of the world population does follow a religion so it's pretty important to have some understanding of the beliefs and values which drive that 85% of the population come from as well as how that might lead to conflict if we as humans want to continue to avoid annihilating one another.

They are also battling against a leader who is a racist who demonstrates little or no care about those who aren’t like him.

not something I aspire towards personally!

Do you work in education ? I predict you won’t answer

Religious Education is probably one of the most important subjects to teach in school.
Like it or not the world all over is affected by religion - wars, laws, culture, music, language, food.....so much.
If you don't understand that @IsitRainin you should go back to school yourself.

Let's throw 2,000 years of history and everything our culture was built on, and replace it with AI.

A background knowledge of religion and ethics is pretty important in contextualising other subjects. While we’re mostly atheist now, so much of our culture is rooted in religion.
Agree it shouldn’t have a large amount of time given over to it, but I’m sure it doesn’t. It’s an hour or two a week (happy to be corrected).
Definitely hope they spend a vast amount more time on IT/coding/AI … it’s moving so fast.
I wish there were some low cost or free community collage type lessons for adults too. I’m only 30s and not keeping up - and it’s scary.

Presumably you would close down all the Church of England schools as part of your plan OP? And disperse all the children in them (especially the rural village schools) to alternative locations possibly far away from where they live

I have DC in school and I am aware of what's being taught in RE. Many parents like me think it's a waste of time.
Another quite telling thing is that people supporting RE in this thread are the most intolerant of any other ideas than theirs

The only thing wrong with that statement is that a lot of Americans come across as supremely uneducated. Not all obviously. But their knowledge of world history and geography is woeful.

So no teaching experience and not a clue about what is actually taught ? Righty ho
And you sound pretty intolerant yourself - especially as you want to do away with the one subject where tolerance is taught

do you not realise it’s the “it’s a waste of time” parents who make it so vital that it is taught?

I’m not intolerant of other ideas.

But you sound very ignorant about the importance of education in religion.

My daughter’s favourite subject is RS, so I wouldn’t want that taken away from her.

With all due respect, someone who calls RE 'shoving religion down children's throat' is clearly biased. Just because you don't value educating people on the beliefs of others in society and on god, doesn't mean it isn't valuable.

'People can learn about it from their family'. Cool, are you teaching your children about any religion? Would you know enough to do so?
Maybe you should have paid attention in RE.

AI can be incorporated into computer science too.

Has anyone seen any benefits of spending all those hundreds of hours on RE to the overall UK economy and GDP, which is constantly sinking and we have a workforce which isn't upto scratch with the constantly advancing AI.

What are you basing that on that we don't agree with you that RE is a waste of time? We've all put forward arguments why it's useful. Can you actually articulate why it isn't?

Where are all these AI teachers coming from op ?

😂 Surely you’d just tailor the curriculum so Computer Science includes appropriate levels of AI teaching.

Why would you suggest replacing a subject that clearly passed you by as a child?

Religious studies should be phased out it's like a philosophy now and I don't know anyone else curriculum but our schools took dc to mosque, hindu temple etc

It should be over hauled evry thin

RE isn't about 'shoving religion down people's throats'. That's Religious Instruction and not taught in state schools. RE is learning about the people, society and world that we live in. It is possibly even more relevant than ever given the current world situation, and the discussion of the ethics of AI is far more likely to happen in an RE classroom than any other.

While I am an atheist, I think that removing RE completely risks religious intolerance increasing and there is so much anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim sentiment right now.