to think this is just not on? (schools, religion and bribery!)

[EXmrsmascarahead]

my son has come home from school today, they held a Jubilee party and all the children got to join in the celebrations, all well and good.

He has just handed over a book to me, 'New testament, to celebrate the queen's diamond jubilee 2012'. Not a lot wrong with that, I suppose, but he has also told me that in order to get the children to take a copy they have been using bribery, 'you can have a cake only if you take a book'.

none of this sits right with me, I know the queen is head of the church of england but not all the children this is handed out to are CofE, religious or celebrating the jubilee. And in order for them to get the children to take the book they have to bribe them. AIBU?

Are you sure the teacher didn't say "Take a cake and a book on your way out?"

How old is your child?

This sounds very odd! How old is your DS? Is it a CofE school?

Quick! Burn the book before you're all polluted and corrupted! Do it now!

Meh. It's just a bit sad and desperate IMO. They get a cake and they don't even have to remember to bring the book home!

It sounds like maybe the teacher was trying to get them to pick up the (boring) book before everyone rushed to get the (yummy) cake and got distracted

Is it a CofE school?

I would think that they were probably told to get the book and then get the cake, and would be extremely surprised if they said cake wasn't allowed unless they took the book. They will just have expected them to take the book.

He's 10, he is not at a religious school and I the teacher did say You can't have a cake without taking the book.

Well it's not like she said "you can't have a cake unless you convert to CofE".

It's a bit strange (if that is what happened) but hardly something to get upset about.

They gave out cake at my job

All we had to do was pickup a copy of an 'improving customer services leavlet which was discarded

Those utter bastards. I might complain to my boss I am outraged! Livid!

How very dare they! They should k ie some of us don't give a shit about customer services

Well unlike adults most kids won't take anything just because it's free. Maybe the teacher was just trying to avoid questions as to why she had a mountain of bibles sitting in her classroom that were supposed to be handed out for the jubilee?

I'd be more concerned about sending my child to a school where the teacher has so little control over the class, the children need to be bribed to follow a simple instruction.

There are Jehovah's witnesses handing out copies of The Watchtower at my station every morning. I might suggest they start giving away free cake too, in which case I would happily take both!

If the queen wants to give away a book and cake in her party bag YABU to moan about it

Maybe to give them something to rest the cake on
tis a bit desperate.

Well, they didn't say to read the book, or not to throw it in the nearest bin outside school, so what real "harm" was done?

Apparently are giving away more than half a million of these things www.christiantoday.com/article/thousands.of.new.testaments.to.be.handed.out.for.diamond.jubilee/29928.htm

What a waste. Hope it's recycled paper.

So little control she can't make the children take bibles home! We obviously need to bring back the cane to intill some discipline in the young whipersnappers!

Seriously has anyone ever tried standing in front of class of kids before they critise. I was a good kid who respected and obeyed teacher, but I'd of "forgotten" to take home a book I thought was boring and irrelevant to me.

I don't want a non-religious school preaching to my child, but as a previous poster said cut the teacher some slack. I suspect they didn't just want to be left with them.

So, YANBU if you object to them trying to convert your child, but if you are worried about cake related bribary things are not always as your children describe them...

The reason Bibles are being given out is because the Queen was given a Bible at her Coronation. Special editions have been produced for the Jubilee.

Year 7 children upwards may need to refer to the Bible for RE homework, so it is always worthwhile saving if they read it or not.

It does make the Gove initiative to give out on bible per school look even more pathetic when the churches are handing out thousands of copies of the NT.

Important question: was it the KJB or a modern translation?

Seriously, is no one going to mention Eddie Izzard,

Exactly Lemarch or stand at the door and hand them out as they leave....

himalaya how rude!

It's a New Testsment. Children don't have to read it or even keep it. But try to be respectful of a key part of the Christian faith.

testament obviously. iPhone...

Why do atheists have to be respectful of this aspect of Christianity when he school is being disrespectful to atheist families (and presumeably Muslims, Jews and others) by giving their children religious materials and bribing them to take them?