Human right lessons?

Schools to offer human rights lessons from US Kennedy project
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34226332

Seems like a very good idea to me. The more alternative ideas that children take on board (especially with regard to religion) the better.

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Old news...My daughter now 27 had one hour a week ' humanities' lesson.
Each week a different viewpoint of religion culture or basic human news stories were examined and discussed.

They were taught about how things such as slavery, migration and the independence of some places had affected various countries and the people living in them.

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Very worthwhile too

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It sounds like a good idea, but I have two reservations

It will just be an excuse to knock the British Empire

Most Muslim schools will not take part

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I think my 2 grandchildren have been taught more about other religions than than their own !!

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The school which my friend's grandchildren attend organised a trip to a mosque, with the parents permission and the Imam, or whoever was involved in the trip. However when it came to organising a trip to a Christian church, not one muslim family would allow their children to go.
I think that says it all.

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I don't see it as preaching 'religion' - at least I hope not
But getting the younger generation to discuss and take an interest in other issues. They must hear a lot from parents - not always good, whereas this idea gives a clearer understanding of topics

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Myrtle, I said exactly the same when I asked my 13 year old grandson what they talk about. He even told me about the KKK !!!

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Any idea which teaches children to think for themselves is always frowned upon by the Establishment. The paragraphs below are from the Wikipedia page about the Socialist Sunday Schools of the early part of the Twentieth Century.

"The Socialist Sunday Schools along with the Labour Church were impeded by a lack of their own premises and met objections to hiring of suitable halls to the extent that in 1907 London County Council evicted five branches out of hired school buildings. A massive demonstration in Trafalgar Square ensued addressed by Margaret McMillan who, with her sister, was a Christian socialist and campaigned for better education and health for poor children. A few years later the Springburn branch met for many years in the Labour Party's Unity Hall in Ayr Street for the same reason.
Later in 1926 Fulham Council refused permission on Sundays because it was of a 'non-theological' character. It was becoming apparent that the reason that the Socialist Sunday Schools were encountering so much opposition was because they were 'being seen as subversive and as poisoning the minds of the young people of the country with their political and anti-religious doctrines and teachings' and there were those who tried to discredit the Schools by accusations of blasphemy and revolutionary teachings."