Originally Posted by Gary L

I'd say it was the same thing.
You get taught history, and you get taught about history.

there is only one history ,there are many religions so if you say "they get taught religion" a natural response to that statement would be "which one" so schools teach "about religion" which includes all religions, it's all in the grammer not sure how old you are but when i was at school (state primary)we had morning assembly which included saying prayers and singing hymms this was counted in the compulsory religious education of each child ,this is what i would class as being "taught religion" ,when i started state comp that practice no longer happened but we still had to have compulsory R.E but it no longer included singing hymms and saying prayers but we were still taught "about religion"



That's in reply to the mother in the story. not nothing I've said.