Sharing/conflict resolution at nursery school?

mountainofdebt

I'm sorry but I can't sign this

Person_one

Well I certainly can.

Schools are for education, not religious instruction, I hope the petition succeeds.

daisiegg

notanewuser wrote: »

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/end-compulsory-worship-in-schools

Does this compulsory worship thing apply to secondary schools as well as primaries? I am so confused by it - I have worked in a few different state secondary schools and none have had any element of worship, let alone daily! I had no idea it was legislation.

balletshoes

I'm more than happy to sign that petition, in my experience at both my child's state schools "the act of daily broadly Christian worship" doesn't take place anyway.

Spendless

I've happily signed. As I've said a few posts up, assemblies are full of important school info, a child would miss out on that if you were to withdraw them due to the religious element that isn't separate and in addition unlike RE lessons, Christianity isn't portrayed as a belief.

notanewuser

daisiegg wrote: »

Does this compulsory worship thing apply to secondary schools as well as primaries? I am so confused by it - I have worked in a few different state secondary schools and none have had any element of worship, let alone daily! I had no idea it was legislation.

Yes. But it's down to the Head's discretion how religious the assemblies are.

purpleshoes_2

notanewuser wrote: »

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/end-compulsory-worship-in-schools

Signed and shared.

Janepig

I've signed it!!

NANU, I was meant to post this the other day. DD came home from school (I think) last Friday having had a visit from some people from one of the Evangelist churches locally (the "god botherers" DD called them ), and all the year 6 girls had been given a book by them called "ten girls who changed the world". I thought, oh that's nice, sounds quite inspirational for them, etc.... How wrong I was.

I quote from the back cover of the book:

"Would you like to change your world? These ten girls did! Read this book and find out how Corrie saved lives and loved Jesus; Mary saved babies and fought sin; Gladys rescued 100 children and trusted god, Joni survived and thanked god; Amy never gave up; Isobel taught others about Christ; Evelyn obeyed God; Jackie showed love; Elizabeth followed Christ and won justice and Catherine rolled up her sleeves and helped the homeless!

Read this book and find out what God wants you to do!

By the time DH came home he virtually had to peel me off the ceiling, livid is not the word. What sort of nonsense is that to be giving them? If you had Muslims going into the school giving that sort of stuff out there be riots. The stories inside were no better, not to mention that some of them were about how wonderful these women were because they went to bring Jesus to the Chinese and Africans. What the hell? And in case DD wanted to know a bit more they also helpfully gave her a pencil with a web address on it of some sort of religious website.

Having said all that, I haven't raised it with the school because it seems to have had no effect on DD whatsoever, she hasn't even picked the book up and promptly lost the pencil. Also she's finishing there at the end of next week. But it shouldn't be happening. There's a church in Wales school a stone's throw from my house if I'd wanted that for my children but I didn't. I've ended up sending them to a school that's probably worse for it!

Jx

Spendless

Oh that's reminded me, when in yr7 DS was given a Bible from the Gideon Society. I attended the same Secondary over 30 years ago and remember getting one too. I'd forgotten until Janepig's post. Is this usually in non-faith Secondary schools in England?

balletshoes

Spendless wrote: »

Oh that's reminded me, when in yr7 DS was given a Bible from the Gideon Society. I attended the same Secondary over 30 years ago and remember getting one too. I'd forgotten until Janepig's post. Is this usually in non-faith Secondary schools in England?

is your school non-faith or non-denominational? I ask because I kind of assumed it was pretty much the same thing, but its not.