Well it's a start. I think high school students deserve the option of having well thought out courses on religious history. I think we underestimate their capacity far too often. Give them a chance to look at religion from a historian's perspective, and I think we'll all be proud of the results. This is, of course, assuming that it is a history class and not a sermon. We certainly wouldn't want to give our teachers the right to try to convert their students to their own particular religion/denomination.

Here's to hoping we see similar sponsoring of studies on Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Pagan history. Not to mention the wide variety of different philosophical systems developed throughout humanity's history.