Rejected petition Remove the option from schools choice to have RE as compulsory so it's a choice

Not everyone needs to study RE. In some schools where it is compulsory pupils miss out on subjects they need to go down a certain career path.

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Example; you choose Spanish as a language
You choose art and DT. You then can't pick IT so you can go into engineering.

PCRE-personal career religious education

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Date submitted 23 January 2019
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