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.

Yes, I was working my way back to this comment too! It’s disgraceful how poor our MFL teaching is. Really we should be aiming to start in Reception.

Still curious as to how the rest of the civilised world manages to produce productive and enlightened citizens without compulsory RE lessons

Why, we don’t need it. Also I think reception classes have bigger issues on their hands such as poor speech and toileting issues.

Exactly why church schools need to be scrapped. My children had one foisted on them curtesy of the tax payer with no other school choice anywhere.

Mfl is a far better use of classroom time than either RE or AI.

Because those things require effort and knowledge of the education system.

The OP isn’t interested in facts or alternative views. They’ve decided their opinion is the right one and that’s that. Ironically demonstrating why Religion, Philosophy and Ethics are important subjects.

I do think RE of some sort is needed in order to stop polarisation and ignorance re other religions however the content and amount of time spent on it is ludicrous.

It really isn’t.

40 odd hours a year?

That is such an arrogant and peculiarly British attitude. It’s precisely this exceptionalism that’s caused so many of the problems our country now faces. Most of us live in a global world now and it is essential to be able to communicate effectively. It should start young because that is the most effective way of teaching it - secondary school is really too late. Yes, there are other issues in primary schools but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t aim for an optimal curriculum!

Have you read the content of the curriculum?

Ai should be part of science education. Do you not realise what stem is? It’s already taught! Science, technology, engineering and maths!

my dd has gone into schools to talk about careers in STEM, you get 3/4 of the year groaning because they are fed up by being told they have no option but work in STEM. In reality most of us don’t

Do they though? Look at America. It’s not feeling very enlightened at the moment and much of what is happening is being justified by so called Christian values.

And China has been mentioned a few times but neither you or @IsitRainin have acknowledged my comments on their curriculum. They might not have compulsory religious education but they do have compulsory teaching on Marxism, socialism and all high school and university students have mandatory military training. Is that preferable to less than an hour of RE a week?

So much ignorance on this thread.
DD left school 7 years ago and even I know that RE/Citizenship/PPE or whatever it is called these days is not about having religion forced down your throat. It is usually about an hour a week at most.

Less than a hour a week?

To be fair, most of the ignorance is coming from the OP.

We have phones, computers that can translate and look up anything. We’re not in a global world, most countries don’t want immigration and most jobs needing staff from abroad can be and often are done from home. Considering the huge of pressures on schools at the moment MFL is very low on the priority list.

Can you expand on what about the content and the length of time spent on it bothers you?

Not really given it’s a key way to learn about the world and other cultures.

Not in a global world????!!!!! Are you living under a rock? I’m acutely aware of the problems schools face and their limitations. I’m talking ideally, not realistically, but then I think much of the curriculum needs a rethink.

Tell me, did you use AI to come up with that figure?

Why would we have to be like China and America rather than, for example, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, Austria etc.?

You are aware that AI regularly translates positive sentences into negatives and vice versa, right?

They frequently don't going by the amount of ignorance, hatred and wars in the world.

Of course the UK with its compulsory RE is famously exempt from ignorance and hatred