Primary School Cancels Easter Celebration to Promote Inclusivity

[Thingamabob]

Why not ban all religious festivals, retaining only Christmas as a pre-christian celebrationof the winter solstice ?

[mrwebb8825]

Until stories like this stop, I hereby decree UK poster opinions about the US shall be considered "Special People Posts".

[thaibeachlovers]

On 3/25/2025 at 2:34 PM, Bert got kinky said:

 

I have to agree with this, we were forced fed this trash at school.

We were forced to say prayers and sing the praises of the pretend sky wizard during every morning assembly, in spite of religious beliefs (or none religious beliefs).

 

 

Ooh, it must have really traumatised you to make you so angry and bitter. I went through all that too, and just stopped after I left school. No trauma, no anger, no hate speech on forums many decades later.

 

BTW, no one "forced" you to say prayers, as you could have just said something else. Were they recording what you said? LOL

[thaibeachlovers]

On 3/25/2025 at 11:45 PM, Thingamabob said:

Why not ban all religious festivals, retaining only Christmas as a pre-christian celebrationof the winter solstice ?

As long as it's everything and not replacing Christianity with some other religious festival, or celebrating woke causes, like alphabet day or such like garbage.

[Bert got kinky]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Ooh, it must have really traumatised you to make you so angry and bitter. I went through all that too, and just stopped after I left school. No trauma, no anger, no hate speech on forums many decades later.

 

BTW, no one "forced" you to say prayers, as you could have just said something else. Were they recording what you said? LOL

 

So you would be ok with an education system that forces their incorrect beliefs onto your children, rather than educating them with the truth?

 

[Thingamabob]

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

As long as it's everything and not replacing Christianity with some other religious festival, or celebrating woke causes, like alphabet day or such like garbage.

Agreed.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 3/28/2025 at 12:34 PM, Bert got kinky said:

 

So you would be ok with an education system that forces their incorrect beliefs onto your children, rather than educating them with the truth?

 

I have no faith in western education to do anything but teach BS, mainly because men are wisely no longer becoming teachers and it's become the lair of woke women.

Even in my day school was a waste of my time as they failed to teach me anything of any use in real life.

Truth?????? Don't make me laugh.

[Patong2021]

On 3/24/2025 at 9:23 PM, JonnyF said:

Inclusive.

 

By excluding a Christian celebration.

 

Sounds about right...

 A school supported by the general population, the majority of whom are non practicing Christians, should not have religion forced on them. If it was a Christian private school, then yes it can hold all the Christian pagan based festivals that it wants. There are chuurches close by where the parents of the students can attend services. There is a separation of Church and state.

I attended a Church of England school, where we had morning prayer, grace before and after meals, and church services at Easter and Christmas. I found it  rather unproductive, although I did like vicar's 2 dogs. However, as it was a private Christian school,  and this was part of the curriculum and  long standing tradition that went back to the schools founding with its long dead "old boys".