AMP: Secular Sunday School

Dear Readers!

Doctor Mohler made his last show about atheist churches and mentioned that atheists in America had the idea of sending their children to atheist Sunday Schools.
He wondered what in the world such an secular Sunday School would look like. I think I can help his imagination with that. In Germany religious education is taught as a regular subject in all schools. For those students who don't want to be taught religious education there is the subject of Ethik (Ethics)

I found a summary of what is taught in German secular ethics classes and will present it.

(note: First German students are 4 years at elementary schools. I will present the curriculum of a Gymnasium which last 9 further years.

source: http://www.schulfach-ethik.de/ethik/Gymnasium/Klasse_5-13.htm

5th grade:
5.1 Perception and Reality
5.2 Needs and rules
5.3 Freedom, Deciding and Acting
5.4 Playing and learning

6th grade:
6.1 The field of community family
6.2 Me and the others
6.3 Image of humanity and ethics of Judaism and Christianity

7th grade:
7.1 Becoming adult
7.2 Conflict and how to solve them
7.3 Image of humanity and ethics of Islam
7.4 Celebrations and their meaning to society

8th grade:
8.1 Way to find a meaning in everyday life
8.2 Responsibility for yourself and others
8.3 Arguing ethically
8.4 Environmental ethics

9th grade:
9.1 Conscience and acting
9.2 Religious interpretations of the meaning of life
9.3 Gender roles, partnership, family
9.4 Ethics of peace

10th grade:
10.1 Values as Foundation and Aim of human acting
10.2 Conscience and responsibility
10.3 Ethics of peace
10.4 World Religions: Hinduism, China
10.5 Gender roles, partnership, family

11th grade
11.1 Basic positions of philosophical ethics
11.2 Philosophic-ethical interpretations of Humanity
11.3 Philosophy of Religion and World Religions in comparing singular questions
11.4 Medical ethics

12th grade
12.1 Basic questions of philosophical ethics
12.2 Freedom and determination from the viewpoint of different sciences

13th grade
13.1 Joy
13.2 Right and Justice