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Does that seem at odds with modern day society? Would agnostics, athiests, muslims (be they "traditional" or White/British Converts), Quakers, JW's, Mormons etc have to take direct peaceful action in schools?
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well we are supposed to be a Christain country...our laws are bases on the Bible and our health and education system has its roots in the early church (monks taught and healed)
ps I am not a racist/bnp supporter
I think its worrying that the BNP is hijacking religion... extremists & religion never make for a happy ending. Maybe they want to use this as a way to introduce a kind of segregation in schools, so people get prejudiced at an earlier age.
Its a good thing they have no chance of any real influence, but all the same we can't ignore them entirely I suppose.
i have always believed that bmp were wrong. but their main aim is to make us a christian britain, so i think they are basically a british version of the natzis, except instead of only wanting to get rid of jewish people, the bnp wants to get rid of any other religion and i have even been told race as well.
there just saying it to aggravate religious minorities, I bet none of them actually give a damn about 'Christian values'.
b.t.w my primary school had prayers and the lord's prayer recited every day in assmbly, singing of hynms etc, it was not a Church of England school either, just an ordinary state-funded primary. This was only 1989-1995 aswell so not like eons ago. But then again it was in a small, predominatly white town, it may have been it different in inner-cities.
well state schools are already introducing certain aspects of other religions into day to day teaching, why shouldn't it be christianity. we may all be quick to claim that we are atheists but we are also quick to defend christianity over other religions, if it was taught in a non opressive way, allowing children to make theier own choices I'd be all for it.
We are a much more secular society in the UK than we have ever been. The dominant role of Christianity has been eroding for the last 60 years.
Some may have forgotten that Prince Charles pledged allegiance to 'Faith' rather than 'The Faith'.
junior schools have assembly's based on god and we have christian schools so i dont know what we need to reintroduce.
school's in general don't force children to participate in things which go against there belief be that sex education or cutting up pigs so i dont know how that would play out.
the main problem would be if the bnp got elected a lot of schools have foreign teachers so we would be in chaos.
I'm not a religious person, but I do think it is a good idea to revert to Christian assembleys at school. Kids need to understand religion, and having good knowledge of their home country's predominant faith is a good place to start.
Children of alternative beliefs should not be required to participate in prayer, but I don't see that any harm can come from learning about other religions.
All schools (unless they are a faith school in the faiths of Islam or Judaism) are required by law to have acts of collective worship in a predominantly Christian tradition so this will not make any difference. All schools barring the above have to teach Religious Education from a predominantly Christian perspective as well so this seems to me to be misguided as they are really trying to incite a feeling against a perceived lack of Christian values in education which is very much not the case. The move within schools is to reduce the religious significance altogether and towards a more Philosophy based set of ideals which would allow our communities to move away from faith schools and more towards the French system of secular education in state run schools which can only be a good thing.
Hi, have deliberitly not looked at any of your answers, nor the website you have given, as I would like to give you my un-biased opinion with regard to your question. You will have to trust me on that, but I assure you, it is true.
When I went to school in the sixties, we always had assembly before the start of our lessons, and it seemed to bring everyone together. We had a talk from the headmaster, only a few minutes, and than sang the school anthem. This brought us all together as one unit before we started are classes.
Times have changed however, and we have many more diferent religions and belelifs to contend with within our schools.
As the United Kindom is primerilly a Christian country, then this should be part of the morming assembly, but we should consider other faiths.
I like to think we are all equal, we are human beings, and should have our own rights on which reliogion we choose, or not, for that matter.
My way forward would be to have assemblies, as we did back in the sixties, but alterenating between different faiths, so we could help out smooth our differences, let others know at early age what each other belives, and why, and emphasise it is not wrong to have diferent beliefes, so long as we all have respect for each other.
These are only my veiws, but I feel there is too much hatred against people of different religious views within our society, and this problem needs sorting, and the best place, in my opinion, is in the schools.
Let our kids learn, we are all diferent, but can, and should live together in peace.
Hope this helps, but this is from my heart.
May I add, there may be many spelling errors in the above, but my spell-checker is not working. I do not want offend anybody, so in advance, Sorry.
It's a very interesting question so thank you for asking it.
I went to all church schools. My primary was C of E as was my middle school and my high school which then merged with the Catholic school across the road. My family is Methodist and as children we went to Church and Sunday school every Sunday. However, this has left no lasting stamp of Christianity on me as I wouldn't consider myself a practising Chrisitian.
We should continue with Christian assemblies - you can see from the answer above that we already have them - but we should seek to understand all faiths and all religions and that teaching should remain part of the syllabus, ie, we should teach it as part of the Religious Education syllabus. I can't tell you why these assemblies should continue (!) except that they weren't about indoctrination or even putting a particularlly Christian spin on things. They were about the school and us a community, hearing what went on in the school and in the world and we sang hymns and prayed for those suffering around the world; I know if I was there now, we'd be praying for those affected by the hurricaine in the Caribbean.
Prince Charles did indeed swear to be defender of 'Faith' and not 'The Faith' and in explaining why, he made the point that we have not one but many faiths in this country. I'm not a monarchist but its good to see that at least one member of the royal family looks to the future.
I believe that in this country we do a good job of teaching tolerance and understanding of other religions (despite how it might seem otherwise on Yahoo sometimes!) and I hope that continues. My views have nothing to do with the BNP, I think this is just them droning on with their usual (limited) tired bag of tricks; it's typical of them that they do not even know what current educational policy is.
I would ban ALL faith based schools - Religion is something that should be dealt with in the family - if at all.
All religion is a form of mental illness to a greater or lesser degree.
Religion should not be the basis of education under any circumstances. Teaching pupils about religions is one thing, but every person has their own views and should not be forced to accept another person's belief system. Especially not the bnp's.
religion doesn't belong in schools, RE being the exception the beliefs of one person shouldn't forced to another. that's how religious war and etc starts in the first. you cant get rid of it, but keep it in the homes and places of worship!
Schools would find it difficult to teach Christianity. What is Christianity ? there are as many diverse Christian beliefs as there are Denominations these days .what i think wouldn`t be a bad idea is for infant and junior schools to have an assembly with a religious theme that is relevant to all basic religion (unselfishness , treating others as we like to be treated )and maybe Children of different beliefs taking turns to do something that represents their religion or belief , for the others. What is needed is a way to teach children to be able to "agree to disagree" and to get rid of the fear and suspicion of people with alternate lifestyles
It is the law now.
Assemblies should have a Christian base.
BUT from experience you would be lucky to find any such teachings. There's loads of pseudo 'good' moral' teaching hidden in pseudo bunny rabbit stories.
I think the American system is about right. Keep all religous teaching at home, church, temple, mosque etc.
And this is from a born again , Christian.
The law is that every school has to have a time of 'collective worship' each day with a broadly Christian viewpoint. Many schools with a range of religions allow the children to abstain from prayers or the whole assembly on the grounds of their religion. The teaching of RE is also a legal requirement, and all children in primary schools will learn about Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. They may also learn about other religions.
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