[TheAmazingIdiot]

In my middle school (Indiana, public schools), we read chapters from the bible, mostly from the Old Testament.

We did this because the next few books we were to read used a large amount of biblical symbolism.

Later on, I took an elective in high school over Jewish history, and was assigned a bible for required reading. We also did comparative analysis between other copies of the bible, as well as readings from the Torah. I think nearly everybody found questionable differences between different translations. However, we did grasp the history of the Jewish people.