Does religion have any place whatsoever in a publicly funded school?

Only in an elective, World Religions course. I think it's important for children to understand the religions of the world as they effect all of our lives and culture as well as play a massive part in our history, but not to be indoctrinated with any one religion.

There are thousands of religions on this planet. Billions of people have followed religions for thousands of years. If evolution can be taught is private high schools, why can't world religions be at least an elective in public high schools?

I think religion should be mentioned. There are a lot of religious folk out there so it would be a flaw in the education system to not tell kids a little bit about them. All major religions should be mentioned. The key thing is that they should be explained as belief, not fact.

No absolutely Not

Thee is already a place where a person can go to either worship God or learn about the Bible

And It is called Church and Sunday School.

Teaching about religion, yes. Teaching a religion, no.

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YUP --- Religion does BELONG in ALL CLASSROOMS.

Hold up, let me fix that... JESUS BELONGS in ALL CLASSROOMS.

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Not taught as the truth, but studied as a myth.

It can be part of social studies (learning about different cultures) and comparative religions, but I don't see it anywhere else. University courses not withstanding.

No.

No