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.

As a teacher I thank many posters on this thread. If I had too many parents at my school like a couple of posters on here, or if you had all agreed with the OP I would have felt so tempted to change my curriculum. No harvest festival, sukkot, Halloween, Bonfire Night, Divali, Eid, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Easter, etc. activities that the children enjoy so much. It would all cause too much controversy. I would keep their poor little noses to the boring and basic grindstone, without teaching the curriculum through "all this religious shit". It would save me so much time, energy and stress.

I would like you all to stop going on about the OP and the topic of this post and congratulate me on my new NN.
I thank you.

Filee - i think if a parents withdraws a child from religious practice in school then it is only right to assume that will include possibly the most religious event of the school year.

she just expected them to wave a magic wand

A special sort of atheist magic wand. Which is just a piece of wood, really. No magic.

Unless the parents are completely thick

Perish the thought.

BUN - Not sure I want to type your 1st name!!! congratultions on your name change

How hard would it have been to speak to the parents first?

Why is this so difficult for people to comprehend?

curtseys

I've just googled fumming

Ah feck!

I meant (curtseys)

Bollocks that doesn't really work, it needs stars around it.

Speak to the parents to explain what Christmas and a nativity play is????

FILEE do you expect school to double check what every parent has stated in writing already? I'd rather they got on with school life and trusted what parents had already clearly stated. It is up to OP to explain his exclusion to him.

I suspect you haven't and don't have to deal with parents fifee777.

It wouldn't be difficult to speak to the parents but it would be incredibly, rude, condescending and disrespectful to mention (which would actually be questioning) their express request.

But why speak to the parents? She's excluded him. It's not the school's place to question that.

Why should they speak to them?

if a parent says they want to withdraw their child from religious practise then strangely the school will assume that means all religious practise.

Now if the parents have different levels of acceptability then that is down to the parents to tell the school. Although I can't imagine the OP would have been impressed if her child had been cast as Joseph in a nativity!

I dont know why you think Im someone else.?
I will go back in tomorrow and ask about the part because shepherds arent actually related to god or baby JESUS and my son wants to be in the christmas play really bad.

Filee - christmas happens every year, without fail, and most schools do some sort of Nativity/Christmas play - this should not have come as a total surprise to the OP. Why would the school even imagine that anyone would need the celebration 'explained' to them?

lol Mamma

FFS is this still going? ..... I just popped on to see if there was anything interesting being 'debated' and we are still on this..... Has OP reappeared?

OMG I've just googled fumming too I thought I was pretty worldy wise but its a new one to me

But you do realise that to be in the nativity play then he may hear things like the Christmas story? if you are opposed to religious education then why is this acceptable?

I've said a number of times that it does not have to be about questioning anything. It's just common courtesy to speak to the parents about something that might potentially upset the child.

What if sheperds have to utter words that angels told them in the bible?
Careful what you wish for Orchwoid. Might be time to let him in all assemblies you might not be able to pick and chose just because he is upset?

Forgot to say that I am 'fumming' that we still seem to be treading (not walking on - as that is so Biblical) water.....

but the parents will know that is going to be the case when they make the decision to withdraw them. Its not for the school to try to sort its the parents choice.