[Ammi]

..anyone parent who wants to opt their child out of any religion in schools is within their right to do so..if they then feel that in doing that, their child also loses out on other valuable ‘life lessons’ in terms of life philosophies, is just really maybe the assurance they may need to show that there is indeed a valuable and relevant place for some religion in schools in the way it is taught at present ...because otherwise they would feel no ‘loss’...it’s not ‘indoctrination’ in any way whatsoever, there are many, many children’s books and stories that have a ‘moral’ value in them..those are the stories that are mostly read to children in school and the stories which are discussed with the children and part of their learning and 'growth'...just because a story has biblical names in and therefore may receive ‘judgement’ or doubt from some for that, doesn’t make the philosophy from that story any different to any other from any children’s book...


..from my own personal experience and that’s all I can comment on..?...with the very few parents I have ever met who have felt very strongly against their child having any religion in school because of their own personal views and have actually considered opting their child out...once they have actually attended those lessons and attended church assemblies and celebrations etc, they’ve then been totally in favour of their child taking part in those lessons and extremely encouraging for them to do so...