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kunekune

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

What a shame - for children to be so cut off from their culture and history.

Knowing about religion is essential. Being religious isn't.

I agree, to a certain extent. Of course, living on the other side of the world they were cut off from the culture and history their parents were born into, which is one of the reasons we came back. I do think that religion is part of general education, but that doesn't have to involve 'collective worship' and because the school they are at is CoE, then there is a lot more to it than that. I'm not sure how much of the general culture children are getting at school any more, certainly my students at university have virtually no general knowledge at all (and, being mainly muslim, most of them know nothing about christianity either).

Oh, and apologies for having led this thread off-track, OP!

PasturesNew

The history of Cornwall is built on hundreds of Saints arriving. It's much stronger down there than up country.

There's the Patron Saint of Cornwall: St Piran (5 March). And many other legends and stories about Saints.

John Wesley did a massive tour of Cornwall and lots of preaching too, so there are a lot of buildings/places associated with him.

Religion, therefore, plays a greater part of everyday life down there. Not going to church/worshipping, but just a greater appreciation and enjoyment of the area in general.

A lot of local festivals in Cornwall are pagan too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_festivals

Strapped

I went to school in Cornwall, and as PasturesNew says, there's a strong Pagan tradition down there. Basically the Christians highjacked all the good stuff lol to the point it's so interwined that no-one bats an eyelid at the spring fertility festivals and visiting the standing stones etc.

In contrast, I now live in Devon and my kids go to the village school which is "very" godly. This week they've been having "sex ed", for example, which seems to be from a decidedly Christian viewpoint (the importance of marriage etc...get them young eh).

Anyway, we digress. OP, I hope your friends have success - it's not easy moving to a new area. I don't know Threemilestone school, so can't comment I'm afraid.