To have written to the school about the Christmas shoebox scheme?

[gastrognome]

Just had a look through the leaflet sent home from DD1's school about the Christmas shoebox scheme that they are involved in.

Turns out the organisation adds religious literature to the boxes before they are distributed.

I love the idea of filling and sending a Christmas shoebox for somebody less privileged than us, but I really don't like the fact that these schemes are used as a means to evangelise. Of course Christmas is by its very nature a Christian festival but I don't think that it's right to "spread the word" by stealth.

So I just wrote to DD's school and suggested that next year they look for a similar scheme that isn't so evangelical in nature. I said I'd be happy to help research any organisations they could work with.

Do any others feel the same way, or have I turned into Scrooge?

ooh its been mentioned a couple of times already

wellies am I right in thinking it was your DC that was given a box? I realise that this could be indicative of how the distribution works, but it could also have been a one off mistake by a distributer who is no longer used.

All other arguments aside, I'm not sure that it's fair to extrapolate so much from your one experience. If I'm mistaken and it's not you then ignore the above

pursestrings.ca/graham.htm

www.religioustolerance.org/reac_ter18b.htm

For those of you that are having trouble with schools that still want to support OCC, print off above links, and then remind the school (and council) of their policies on Equal Opportunities.....

There are more,I just googled quickly.

Worked for me..