To speak to the school?

[Orchwoid]

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.

he could be a sheeeeeeep!

Or a pagan Persian King!

Third tree on the left (with earplugs in so he doesn't hear the singing)?

I'm so confused now. Do you fumm your God parts? Is it better if I put a teatowel on my head?

CBA reading the whole thread, but hasn't anyone said

JEEZ LOUISE

yet? Disappointing.

Brilliant.
That is all.

I was a tree. In fact I was tree 3. It was 39 years ago, but they still called it a bloody Nativity because that's what the Christmas story is all about.

I wanted to be Mary

Op YOu are bein g completely unreasonable now.
It is a bit concerning now

Maybe Pontius Pilate could be added for your son to play?

Maybe the OP wanted him to be an octopus?

Oh good lord I have just read the update out to my teens. They are sat like .

Thanks for cheering me up OP, my DH has just left for four months I was really down in the dumps before your update!

I'm wondering whether the OP would refuse an Ocado order delivered by Jesus.

soverylucky - probably because it is basically harmless and seems to be giving everyone a lot of amusement. I expect hundreds one or two people may have reported it, though.

marmoset- My point exactly! Why don't the government fund education instead of expecting churches to pick up the slack.

OP, interesting spelling.
Didn't realise atheism was a religion....
I'm an atheist too. I have better things to do than write letters to DDs school boring on about religion/lack of it. Who are you to decide what your child's religion is? It's up to them! My DD went through a Jesus is great thing. I just let it pass.
I think you need to get a life. You caused this by writing to school.
Accept you were wrong. Accept that you have upset your child. Suck it the actual fuck up.

cjel - church schools are almost entirely funded by the government (ie everybody's taxes, including atheists). I think voluntary aided CofE schools and Catholic schools may get some funding (up to 10% for building and maintenance costs, if I remember correctly?) from the church, but the rest is government money, and voluntary controlled church schools are 100% taxpayer funded.

I always get caught out as being gullible enough to fall for trolls.
The start was silly enough, but to say you don't want him to have a part, kick up a fuss when they take note and don't give him a part and then turn down a part when offered and expect to have a non religious part in a nativity play is beyond silly! Even a sheep or a donkey accompanies a religious character.
Perhaps he could stand on the edge with a placard saying 'my mum wants me on stage but she doesn't agree with the play or the music, so I have no costume, no words and I can't sing the songs'!!

The churches aren't exactly picking up the slack, cjel. Almost all of the funding from church schools comes from the government, not the church.

Shepherd is a perfect part though. Don't they represent spreading the good news to the gentiles, so is definitely not a god part.

"Why don't the government fund education instead of expecting churches to pick up the slack."

The government do fund all the running costs (or, at least, they give the church what the school would cost to operate were it a state school): the voluntary aided schools "just" provide the original buildings and, cruicially, the land the buildings (the state has paid much of the subsequent capital works) Given the sheer number of school places provided by the CofE, in particular, no government since the war has ever fancied the idea of either buying the land off the church or acquiring sufficient land and buildings itself to make the matter moot.

If the OP is also the hamwidge poster then I truly truly take my hat off to you. I guess we will never know, but if you are there, reading then
and a Booker Costa prize too! Genius!

cjel - this gives a good run-down of different types of school and their funding. The government pays for state education even when it is provided via a church school. Did you really think that the Church of England was footing the bill for all the hundreds or thousands of church schools around the country?

"A voluntary aided school is a state-funded school in which a religious foundation or trust owns the school buildings. All running costs and 90% of building costs are funded by central government via the local authority. The religious foundation contributes the remaining 10% of capital costs."

"A voluntary controlled school is a state-funded school in which a foundation or trust (usually a Christian denomination) has some formal influence in the running of the school.
Voluntary controlled schools are funded by central government via the local authority. The land and buildings are typically owned by a charitable foundation, which also appoints about a quarter of the school governors.
The Local Education Authority employs the school's staff."

If the OP is also the hamwidge poster then I truly truly take my hat off to you. I guess we will never know, but if you are there, reading this then thanks cake wine and a Booker Costa prize too! Genius!

Exactly friday16-much of it is prime land for building and worth a fortune-they are hardly likely to hand it over to the state for free!