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@******lynda****** wrote:
I don't suppose the schools would dare now, but in the very few years a teacher actually turned up at RI/ RE it was the headmaster who picked out stories from the bible and had us consider more scientific or logical reasons to explain them, rather than accept a miracle had happened.

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This rings a bell, lynda.  When I was a kid in school, we had  "Divinity" lessons.  These were taught by a "Divinity" master. 

He presented supposedly "scientific" explanations of the miracles in the New Testament.

For example:

1. The Feeding of a Multitude by 5 Loaves and 2 Fishes.

 The Divinity Master explained,  that the multitude actually had ample food-supplies concealed in their clothing.  Which they brought out, when stimulated by the sight of the few fish/loaves. That's to say, the multitude were entirely self-supplied, and not nourished miraculously by an external heavenly source.

2. Jesus Walking on the Water

The Divinity Master explained,  that Jesus was actually walking on a concealed sand-bank, which lay just below the surface.

I must say these explanations greatly disturbed me.  Partly because of their implausability.  But more so, because they seemed to show a deliberate, or perhaps even unconscious, attempt by the Master, to undermine faith in the Bible.

Which seemed incongruous to his role as a teacher of Religion.  Why did he do it, do you think?