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the world needs to urgently integrate
courses into every school's ciriculum starting from the age of ten to graduation, repeated yearly. Otherwise we are fucked.
Students are already stressed with their curriculum, by addimg these courses you are making them more stressed which increases the risk even more
Replace the less sensical ones like religion classes.
Nobody needs those. If you want to learn more about god and the world, I am sure the (local) church is more than willing to share.
Comparative religions classes have value. It's important to gain understanding into other people's beliefs and to be able to compare and contrast them. If you're only learning about one religion...not so much. Especially if it's the religion you were brought up in.
Going to church, on the other hand, is no substitute at all. You're just being indoctrinated, full stop.
In our school (Germany, BW) we had two types of religion class: Ethics and "regular".
Ethics were for anyone opting out of regular classes (I believe before 14 only with consent of the parents). Regular was split between protestants and catholics. And basically nothing else than talking about the bible and it's stories.
And I can't remember it being anything else than just discussing the stories.
What I heard about ethics class was also nothing like you are suggesting. While it seemed to take a view over every religion (seemingly primarily christian and muslim) it was also about ethics with and between animals and humans.
And afaik the christian classes were with teachers that had theological focus (but afaik not studied)