Petition Remove religion as a mandatory subject from school and replace with life skills.

At the moment, schools are required to provide religious education. I believe this lesson should be removed and replaced with a requirement to teach life skills.

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Whether you believe in religion or not, you have to agree that time is better spent with teachers instructing students on how to do things like first aid, and pay their mortgages. Most lessons are already a waste of time, but let's start with the worst one and replace it with something useful

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Date closed 3 May 2017
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