My school is a public school and we offer 'Studies of Religion' as a subject, but only 2U. There are 15 people in my class - two of which are religious. The rest of us are not. My teachers are really into Hinduism and Buddhism and stuff and they try their very, very hardest to make it interesting for us.. For example, last term after studying Hinduism and Buddhism we spent an entire period learning traditional Hindu/Buddhist chants and doing yoga with incense. We also do Sufism as a "school of thought" in Islam and had a Sufi lady come and talk to us about it, which was cute.
Most of the lessons in year 11 were just spent talking about the philosophical side of religion, but now it's getting serious and they're fretting that we need to get up to standard in order to properly compete against the Catholic schools etc. We write an essay a week in class; in time conditions, and have done our half yearly exams again and again until we all got 5/5 for the short response Religion and Non Religion/Religion 1945 to present questions ...