Article "If you want private education for your kids, pay for it yourself"
May 28th 2007, 12:20 pm
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Or a bit of spirutual development! I only have an issue with people who use it as a crutch or complete life support system.But I'd be very happy about the kids going to a "moderate" Christian school because of the moral framework it provides.
(Oh dear - this is deja vu - I seem to remember this comment provoking a big argument about 6 months ago!)
May 28th 2007, 12:21 pm
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To be fair though it is, certainly in my school, very moderate. They go to chapel once a week and sing a hymn in assembly and that's about it!
All my secular schools when I was a kid had an element of christianity. You had to study RE (you don't in my current "religious" school), you had to sing hymns in assembly and say prayers and you had to - in my primary school - say grace before meals!!
All my secular schools when I was a kid had an element of christianity. You had to study RE (you don't in my current "religious" school), you had to sing hymns in assembly and say prayers and you had to - in my primary school - say grace before meals!!
May 28th 2007, 12:25 pm
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And I can see why that can be a problem for some people. I must admit that when I was in the UK and applying for jobs in WA, I was shocked by the amount of church schools. It felt as though I was going into the Bible Belt of the US.
My own view is one of expediency. I'm prepared to take a bit of institutionalised religion if it means a better all round education.
May 28th 2007, 12:33 pm
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Sure.
And I can see why that can be a problem for some people. I must admit that when I was in the UK and applying for jobs in WA, I was shocked by the amount of church schools. It felt as though I was going into the Bible Belt of the US.
My own view is one of expediency. I'm prepared to take a bit of institutionalised religion if it means a better all round education.
And I can see why that can be a problem for some people. I must admit that when I was in the UK and applying for jobs in WA, I was shocked by the amount of church schools. It felt as though I was going into the Bible Belt of the US.
My own view is one of expediency. I'm prepared to take a bit of institutionalised religion if it means a better all round education.
It's some of the sect religions I'm a bit wary of - ie. there is a Mormon enclave in Narre Warren which friends of friends of friends invited us to a party. (It''s true!)
We all had to stand up in front of the church and introduce ourselves and our families. Thinking it would be patronising to take it too seriously and that men of the cloth are quite partial to a joke or two at His expense my opening lines amounted to me pretending to think I was mistakenly at a AA meeting....
cue silent faces...
never got invited back, but as the loon on the table next to me missed his guns and trucks from Utah I didn't feel we were missing out too much.
As for eyes closed during prayer - don't. I will never forget the time at lunch when an uneaten piece of treacle tart was pinched right from under my face.
May 28th 2007, 12:35 pm
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Could have been worse. You could have said "When do we start swapping wives?"
May 28th 2007, 12:40 pm
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May 28th 2007, 12:42 pm
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One kid opposite me with a heavy cold started laughing at all of us doing these fake prayers and laughed so hard that he shot thick green snot into his glass of water.
I remember seeing it floating around for a microsecond before collapsing with laughter and then another microsecond later getting picked up by the earlobe by some nasty cow of a teacher.
May 28th 2007, 12:47 pm
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Prayers before lunch at primary school still invokes a lifelong funny moment for me. We were all sitting around one of those octagon tables. We all had our hands clasped together. Eyes screwed shut but with one eye peeping at everyone else.
One kid opposite me with a heavy cold started laughing at all of us doing these fake prayers and laughed so hard that he shot thick green snot into his glass of water.
I remember seeing it floating around for a microsecond before collapsing with laughter and then another microsecond later getting picked up by the earlobe by some nasty cow of a teacher.
One kid opposite me with a heavy cold started laughing at all of us doing these fake prayers and laughed so hard that he shot thick green snot into his glass of water.
I remember seeing it floating around for a microsecond before collapsing with laughter and then another microsecond later getting picked up by the earlobe by some nasty cow of a teacher.
She was a saffer, first contact, er, ahem, I had with a ''migrant'.
I couldn't work out why she didn't look African, and thought she was dead curious.
