(07 Dec 2014, 10:04 pm)aureolin See, this is what gets me. Why force people through RE, a foreign language, and a humanity during KS4? If the kids aren't interested in doing it, the lesson won't be productive. The school's stats usually show that too. When I was at a community school (like Park View), I was forced to do RE & mixed humanities during Yr7-9, and then French during Yr7-11. RE was very centred around the Church of England, and in three years, never really covered any other religion. Humanities was OK, but the kids weren't interested, so the lessons were quite disruptive. Same with French.
If I have to do RE, I will kick off. RE should not be mandatory. At least half of RE is took up by the teacher telling kids off for being disruptive, but I don't mind as I hate the subject.
I only think a language/humanity subject is mandatory if you take the English Baccalaureate but I may be wrong.
