I have no idea how sunday schools (or CCD or whatever we are calling religious ed today) are run here in our diocese but in Malaysia it appears you actually have to know something when the course is done. I hope that is true with us. Maybe some of our religious ed teachers could give us a little run down on what is suppose to happen in classes and what is suppose to happen at the end. Is there a required curriculum? How is learning evaluated?
In my opinion, children -young people- will only take those things seriously that adults present as serious.