My atheist DC attend a non faith school but obviously the school are still bound by law to hold daily acts of worship.
When they first attended they went to all assembly's and stayed for prayers although as far as I know didn't take part. As they got older they asked to be removed from the Reverends weekly visit and then the next year from prayers altogether.
At the start of each term I ask them if they still want to be removed and let the teachers know accordingly. Although they've never requested to go back.
I just wanted to post in case anyone was out there worried about removing their children from assembly as it might single them out, but since our DC started leaving 4 other atheist children from 2 different families have also joined them. Together with the 4 JW children and 3 brethren kids thats 13 children from a rather small 160 child school. And they LOVE it. They play games in the classroom and discuss their own religious thoughts during the reverends visit and by the time they get back to their rooms the other kids are finished anyway.
Anyway I just wanted to say if you were considering it, maybe ask the school if there are any other children already leaving assembly, you may start a trend!
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Pantone363 · 02/09/2013 00:53
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