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French children do not learn Religious Education (RE) in the same way as in some other countries. The French education system promotes secularism and does not include formal religious education in public schools. However, private schools, including Catholic schools, may offer religious instruction.
Religious education is "instruction religieuse" or "cathéchisme" (for Catholics). It is not a school subject (except in some private religious schools) but is taught by volunteers outside schools.
They get their education as all other people of other religions and other cultures: through schooling, either in public, private, home, or religious environments.
Education was very poor and the only ways to learn were by reading books and going to a private or religious schools.
RE could stand for Religious Education. That would be, éducation religieuse, in French. This class doesn't exist in public schools and is not mandatory in private, religious ones.
Steven L. Jones has written: 'Religious schooling in America' -- subject(s): Church schools, Private schools, Religious education
The principles of secularism (a view that public education and other matters of civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element) are written in the French fundamental law. For religious schools (which are all private), it is not allowed to make religious education compulsory.
There are regular public schools, religious (modern-Orthodox) public schools, there are schools which give a Torah-education, and there are private schools (whose orientation depends on who runs them).
Education can be public. Education can also be private.