[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..again I think that the 'school' thing is a generalisation and a judgement...maybe some schools do 'indoctrinate', I don't know of any but that may be so...but no school that I know of does that at all...there may be 'bible stories' but it's more of a philosophy/'moral story' type thing which other 'non religious' stories are also used for...and teaching children to be kind to others/to think about their actions/learn empathy etc is a very good and valuable 'life lesson'....but if parents strongly object to any even slight reference to religion being used in any way, then there is always an 'opt out' available for their child ..it's not just one specific religion that's referred to anyway, many religions are used to explain different beliefs, which also teaches tolerance and understandings...

I went to a Church of England primary school.Good school,Used to sing hymns every morning,Pray go to church for certain events.They never indoctrinated me because i never believed any of it at any point,Even as a 5 year old.Did'nt ever do me any harm at all.Nothing wrong with faith schools imo,Still have good memories of going there.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

I went to a Church of England primary school.Good school,Used to sing hymns every morning,Pray go to church for certain events.They never indoctrinated me because i never believed any of it at any point,Even as a 5 year old.Did'nt ever do me any harm at all.Nothing wrong with faith schools imo,Still have good memories of going there.

And if there was no religion at the school you went to do you think that you would have turned out different. Lets say that all the time that you were singing, going to church and praying you instead were learning new things?

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

And if there was no religion at the school you went to do you think that you would have turned out different. Lets say that all the time that you were singing, going to church and praying you instead were learning new things?

Things like hymns and praying etc were during morning assembly which i believe most schools had,All my other non religious schools after had assemblies in the morning which were just as useless.The only thing that may have ate into lesson time would be the odd visit to church for harvest but that was like once a year.Tbh we'd never pay much attention to all the religious stuff,Just sit there or mess around.I don't think that stuff had any effect on me positive or negative,I only went there because it was the local primary school,It was just like any other school apart from what i mentioned.
Edit:Also there were kids there from other religions too,Sikhs,Muslims,Hindus etc.I even remember us celebrating Diwali one year in a play aswell as the Nativity.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

Things like hymns and praying etc were during morning assembly which i believe most schools had,All my other non religious schools after had assemblies in the morning which were just as useless.The only thing that may have ate into lesson time would be the odd visit to church for harvest but that was like once a year.Tbh we'd never pay much attention to all the religious stuff,Just sit there or mess around.I don't think that stuff had any effect on me positive or negative,I only went there because it was the local primary school,It was just like any other school apart from what i mentioned.
Edit:Also there were kids there from other religions too,Sikhs,Muslims,Hindus etc.I even remember us celebrating Diwali one year in a play aswell as the Nativity.

Another balanced post.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

I went to a Church of England primary school.Good school,Used to sing hymns every morning,Pray go to church for certain events.They never indoctrinated me because i never believed any of it at any point,Even as a 5 year old.Did'nt ever do me any harm at all.Nothing wrong with faith schools imo,Still have good memories of going there.

A good post.