Great News! Schools dropping Christian assemblies
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At last. More than 140 schools have won the right to opt out of the draconian legal requirement to provide a daily act of worship. They will be replaced with multi-faith session or 'moments of reflection'. At last the poor buggers can escape the crap that the christians peddle in these assemblies. Great news.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335773/Schools-drop-Christian-assemblies-favour-multi-faith-moments-reflection.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335773/Schools-drop-Christian-assemblies-favour-multi-faith-moments-reflection.html
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Yikes - no not that. Keeping the promotion of religious worship outside of the classroom. Swearing allegiance to the flag is a little creepy.
Eh? How is that British? Its anachronistic and most pupils and staff see it as a waste of time.
Evidently this isn't the case across the board. Moments of reflection don't need to include any fiction gods or religions.
Apart from when the Inspectors are in, everyone pretends to obey the government rules then for 1 week.
Ironically, Christianity is an imported religion, it originated in the Middle East.
Never had Christian assemblies until i went to sixth form, the head teacher there was a practicing Christian and insisted on saying prayers at the end. I used to keep my head up and remember getting some dirty looks on more than one occasion. I thought that (the dirty looks) was unreasonable, as far as i am aware you can't be forced to pray and it's not as if i was stopping anyone else from praying either. I was being far more respectful anyway, compared to the majority of people whom bent their heads in order to talk to their neighbours.
I don't see this as good news-just as yet another British tradition ditched in order to appease immigrants and minority groups.
the only requirement in the law was that there would be a daily act of worship the law doesnt specify which religion that act of worship should apply and often islamic schools have islamic acts of worship, Jewish; jewish acts of worship. However this discriminates against Atheists and agnostics religions that are british in origin.
They didn't do them at our secondary school from about 1994 onwards.
Like the christian religion, it is an outdated tradition and serves no purpose in todays society. It isn't about immigrants or minority groups, but about relevance in our secular country. I agree with those who say it shouldn't be replaced with worshipping other religions. There is no need for religious content in any of our schools. Leave it in the churches.
Yeah, because it makes a lot of sense to have half the school singing hymns and praying to a god they dont believe in. That sounds like a perfectly good use of the schools time.
I used to enjoy hymns as a child, and I like quite bible stories!
I wonder how successful a school would be to make the same suggestion in an Islamic society?
BTW, I am not anti islam, I believe people have a right to choose their own belief and faith, but this is a Christian society, and why we openly celebrate Christmas, Easter and most of the other holidays we have!
We used to be a christian society but we've moved to a more secular society where those who don't believe in the christian god aren't forced to participate in, what they would see as, pointless exercises.
How many people actually celebrate christmas for its religious signficance. Most appreciate 2 days off work, presents and a big feed. God doesnt really enter into it.