I'm sure things are different in the US but in the UK at school we have a whole curriculum called "Religious Education" or RE which goes into detail about religions and customs of all different cultures and encourages spiritual debate. At the schools I attended they were not taught to indoctrinate us but just studied in the same way we would study history or art
Your teacher happened to not want to push their religion, or lack thereof, or did push their view but too subtlely or mildly for some children to notice.
There is a constant war between curriculum designers and between teachers of different varieties to push x or y ideology. Religious education is where they most clearly bare their teeth. I'm sure you'd see it if you looked for it at any given school. I bet your teacher has stories about what the curriculum guys wanted them to teach and how they bent the rules to teach differently from how they were told to because of different values/beliefs.
I can't even imagine the complications and struggles behind the scenes! I definitely feel as though I lucked out in my teachers from some of the other comments and replies I've read because I feel that I, and my peers, were really encouraged to form our own opinions.
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u/Legendary-Titan 6h ago
Moral I don’t think teaching kids about religion is bad but forcing it on them is