This poster was placed in every school in England in 1870. It bans compulsory religious education (RE). I hope you can make out the print.
This was later overturned and RE became compulsory for all, with conscience clauses for those pupils not of the Church of England. These days state school RE is broad and not intended to propagate any one faith.
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@vic7ory I was thinking of the debate in the US over religion in schools which seems to be pretty polarised. It was clearly a debate in the 19th century here.
