To speak to the school?

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I've just been to collect my son from his school and he's told me that he won't be cast in his school Christmas play but all the other children will.

I am fumming. I am going to go and speak to his teacher first thing tomorrow morning but I am so angry that I can't work out whether I'm being reasonable or not.

There are parts around the Christmas play which he could be in. Perhaps helping with the staging / lighting / makeup/costumes

OP,You don't believe in God and you don't want your son to learn anything in relation to religion. I hope you will think again - why they are doing this. I believe the school are following your instructions to the letter.

Perhaps OP's DS could run across the stage dressed as Ricky Gervais and perform the david brent dance, that way they can be sure there is no 'godnshit' involved... Also he wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb

Seriously though, learning about god isn't the same as believing in god?

I asked for no assemblies

Assemblies in school are about more than singing hymns. they are for school news, awards etc. Do you really, really want him missing out for years?

Assemblies in school are about more than singing hymns. they are for school news, awards etc. Do you really, really want him missing out for years?

that really assemblies are an important part of a school day they get to know what is happening

OK have just posted this in a very inappropriate thread by mistake (laughing too much and pressed the wrong button), but here goes.

It's the Christmas play, so what has it
to do with God and all that shit?

This should be one of the songs in the play itself.

wondering if OP is still ranting and fuming at the injustice of the school What did you say OP? Did you demand he play Jesus?

The OP is one of those people who are impossible to please.

Schools can do nothing right in such cases. Who on earth would ever want to work in a school?

Mind you, I came from a teaching background. My dad was a headmaster and my mum a teacher. Parents such as this provided endless entertainment, not just in the staffroom, but at home in the evening too.

I have a vision of the teacher looking like this [confsued] as the op is ranting on then she is asked to leave the building

people do go a bit loony over school plays though there has been countless threads about it, this is the best by far

This thread has cheered me up so much after a shit day so far!!
OP, just retract your request. It really is the easier option, DD's school assemblies are minimally achristian, a little prayer and a hymn then onto the school news and awards.
There's a chance that the play won't even be religious, I'm still slightly shell shocked 2 years after our school put on Snow White and the Seven Jockeys one Christmas... It was erm... Different...
Oh and I'm Pagan btw. We celebrate Yule and Christmas to accommodate everyone in the family! The season goes on for days in this house

hanging you are a genius.

OP you are either withdrawing him from collective worship or you are not. It is not pick and mix. Simples.

HangingGardenOfBabbysBum

Bravo!

Definitely best post ever. Although I fear you've set yourself a precedent there, we will need more poetry on bizarre threads now!

Have you been in to school OP?
Reminds me of the time my dad was a bank manager and wrote to ask a customer with no money going into her account to stop writing cheques. She stormed into the bank and shouted at him 'what do you mean I can't write cheques, of course I can, I have all these cheques left in my cheque book'

How did it go this morning,OP?
Tilty head and smiley- gwan, gwan

Oh and if you're worried about your Ds being indoctrinated in any way, my DS spent his whole primary school career going to assemblies and stopped believing in Santa and God in the same year.
He is however ambling towards certain Pagan beliefs

I saw Louise this morning and she said she isn't in this one which is good because the clouds hang out of all your arses. I have made an apointment to see headteacher after school because my boy is not getting all this shit.

it is your fault

Those were my thoughts Soupdragon, Louise has resorted to recommending MN as she didn't want a full on barny at the school gates whilst she tried to explain to OP that she is in fact in the wrong.
OP, you really need to learn to see the bigger picture and maybe not make knee jerk reactions before you have explored the full significance of your actions. Learning about other people's faiths is a good thing and helps your child to have a wider understanding of the world and the people in it.
You don't have to believe to be able to observe and take part...just like Christmas for thousands of families.

I wondered why i couldn't get my trousers to fit!

I bet louise is pissing herself laughing at you OP she knew you would get a bashing and be told YABU is louise really your friend

What the hell does the clouds hang out of all your arses mean?

No...I've checked, it's definitely piles hanging out of my arse

Oooo, I get it. It's the MNr's who put talc on their fanjos, when they fart there is a cloud!

OP aside, I'm amazed by the 'why did you send him to a religious school if you aren't religious' comments that always crop up in these discussions. Does anyone really think that the state school admissions system allows such choices?! In many areas, it's a religious school, private school (possibly - most of them are religious too) or home ed - hardly a realistic set of choices.

OP, just ask for him to be put in the Xmas play. Atheists have as much right as Christians to rank inconsistency.

is it really possible to separate assemblies at all other times of the year to the christmas 'assembly' which takes the place of a play?

How has OP managed other school christmas 'assemblies'

I have checked and have nothing hanging from me