chairman bill wrote:"Yaweh, saying 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me'

Not just in schools [I presume the person means God here], but should be integrated in our daily life. We see the result in other, especially European countries, by abandoning Christianity and what it stands for.

jamest wrote:It might surprise you to know that I don't think that religious education should be part of the curriculum, at any age.

Sendraks wrote:also means he doesn't get the chance to push to the front of the queue at lunchtimes. Or be picked first in sports. For both teams.

chairman bill wrote:I'd say he belongs in a secure psychiatric hospital

Schools should no longer face a legal requirement to provide daily acts of worship of a Christian character, under radical reforms being proposed by a top-level inquiry into the place of faith in multicultural Britain.
The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, led by former high court judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, also recommends curtailing the segregation of children by faith and a radical overhaul of the teaching of belief to make it more realistic and relevant in a diverse and increasingly secular country.
The weighty report…

The content of syllabuses on religion and belief does not reflect reality and is overly sanitised, it says. “They tend to portray religions only in a good light...

AMYNTAS wrote:In public, secular schools, there is good reason for God to be "in" the schools, if by that we mean discussion about theism and religion. A good grasp of history, philosophy, political science, and sociology, just for starters, requires some knowledge about theism and religion, even for just its enormous role they have had and continue to have in this world. If a school is publicly funded but not secular in principle, then I see no reason why theism cannot be endorsed by some schools.