Thursday, May 15, 2008

WORSHIP IN SCHOOLS

A comment supporting the new parliamentary human rights report, which argues strongly for children to be given the right to opt-out of acts of collective worship that are, astonishingly, still mandatory in publicly-funded schools here.

2 comments:

  1. My kids school no longer teaches any religion, it cannot half the school has another religion so it tried to have all faiths taken into consideration, a parent meeting decided to stop all religious practice worked pretty well so far

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  2. Good teaching about belief systems, both religious and non-religious is IMO vital for the health of a plural society. But that is different to worship and confessional teaching, which is the job of the faith communities, not schools.

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