Fun fact about UK schools..they’re required not only to have compulsory RE but the curriculum is required to reflect the predominant place of Christianity in religious life and hence Christianity forms the majority of the content of the subject. Now I’m all for getting religion the fuck out of places of education and leaving it to the parents and churches/mosques/synagogues/whatever to indoctrinate the kids in their own time and at their own expense but in the absence of that if they close Catholic Schools and land those kids into general education what brand of Christianity do you think they’ll be learning ? Now of course parents can pull their kids from religion classes just as they can here but that in itself creates a them vs us situation all of its own and that before you get into the “ethos” crap (that we have here too) which permeates well beyond the 30 mins a day official religion class...