Would you say something to the RE teacher about this comment?

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If the RE teacher was talking about God creating the world and switching on the lights on the sun, moon and stars and then a DC (not mine) said "Excuse me miss, but the moon isn't lit, it's lit up by the sun" and the RE teacher responded '"Ah, but that's what science would like us to believe", would you say anything?

DH (a science teacher) is climbing the walls with unbridled fury.

you ve been quoted.
plus it doenst means she doesnt also believe it

might have been said with a smile and a wink

or with annoying iverted comma hands

I haven't read the whole thread so sorry if I'm saying something that's been discussed but I am a Christian... I also believe that the the moon is visible due to the light of the sun. My Cof E church celebrated Darwin's birthday and the vicar did an amazing talk on how science and Christianity can go together. The vague premise being that it's like a cake, science tells you the recipe and Christianity tells you why the cake was made. (It was better than that but I can't remember with my baby brain).

I probably wouldn't complain I'd just tell dd that RE teacher is clearly nuts and maybe suggest she doesn't do RE GCSE if that's the teacher.

By the way OP - should have said, the reason it would be good to pass your anecdote on to Accord is that they compile evidence, and present it in reports. They have influential supporters in Parliament, and their reports are taken seriously, so it wouldn't be a wasted effort to contact them.

It probably would be a wasted effort to speak to the teacher but, if you do, please report back what she says!

I'd be faster to complain that they are being left to work unsupervised, if that does indeed happen. What kind of school is this?

It's my understanding that RE these days is not allowed to blatantly present such nonsense as fact. Are you sure the teacher wasn't just trying to play devils advocate and stimulate debate? Perhaps it was too subtle for even the children to realise? Or perhaps your DC attends a faith based school, in which case the teacher was probably deadly serious!

In my DS's school it's not even called RE anymore. It's now called Philosophy and Beliefs and the old "RE" element is simply presented as things that some groups of people believe. It remains a compulsory subject to age 16 but it's more now about presenting moral and ethical scenarios as debates - all of which have a for, an against and a religious view. It adds far more balance and my DS enjoys it.

But Christians do not believe what the teacher said. Or any religion afaik. So it's not the teacher being biased toward their religion.
It really sounds like a sort of eyebrow-raised conspiratorial comment to me - no way could anyone believe it for real.

FGS I'm pretty sure it was just a flippant jokey off the cuff remark. Not the actual view of the teacher.

This.

Sounds like a joke to me.