[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I think Education and Religion should be separate. Unfortunately, over here most of the schools are still mainly Catholic, the older I get the more annoyed I am with both myself and our government for not having more options when sending my kids to school. There is no non denominational school near where I live so I've had to send my kids to a Catholic school which I hate because I don't believe any of the stuff they teach my kids, I've had to try and counter this by chatting with my kids about other possibilities and telling them that what they're being taught in Religion class is not fact like the teachers say and they should make their own minds up about it.

Agree with this completely. Education should be secular, although I do think there should be some teaching about different religions. I went to classes for my own religion but I went outside normal school hours and it was something that I chose to do. I think that's the right way.