to not want my kid to go to a mosque ...again!

[moaningminnie2]

We live in North Yorkshire and every year the village Cof E school run a whole-school trip to Bradford.First they went to a mosque, then the following year a Gurdwara and then a Hindu temple, and now this year back to a mosque again.They do that in the morning, then have lunch and a run around in a park, and then in the afternoon a quick visit to 'Bombay Stores' and then back home for school pick up. DD and her friends don't want to go ( they went in Y2) and I resent having to pay £13 for each of my 2 kids at the school.Whaty is the point of going to the same place again, and do the school get 'Brownie Points' for doing this sort of RE trip.

I hope its a pretty one with beautiful tiles and lights.

We never went to another place of worship at primary. Just Bannockburn every single year of primary school. (And one trip to Calderpark Zoo).

I can't believe the anti muslim sentiments OP. This is a serious issue you need to address.

Or racism?

Until Mosques become inclusive to women and stop segregation of the sexes, I would not want my child to go to one either.

x2boys
My sons are Muslim they have visited the local church and St Paul's Cathedral with the school and we did the tour of St George's Chapel in Windsor when we did a trip there.

They have also been to a mosque, gurdwara, synagogue and temple.

It is good for all children to learn about different faiths.

I am going to get this thread pulled, because I don't want to get suspected of trollery

Ha ha ha ha! Brilliant!

It isn't about going to a mosque.it's about going to a mosque twice in 3 years!

would be annoyed about 13 for an educational trip. That should be coming out of school funds, not parents purses.

Don't get that. Parents are normally asked to pay for educational trips so that the school can cover its costs, though this is called a voluntary contribution.

I am actually going to go against the grain a bit here. I sympathise with the OP's point of view.

I have nothing against mosques, synagogues, Hindu temples, churches, cathedrals or any place of worship or culture. My children have each been on a couple of trips to mosques etc. with school. They didn't mind them, but certainly by the second time they were much less enthusiastic. I think that the exposure to a different culture was good for them, but none of them would pick those trips out as their favourite school outing of all time.

Not meaning that to sound offensive. It is just what actually happened.

'it'sut' = it's about

I agree OP. It's a slippery slope. Since you don't agree with this kind of thing, forcing schools to have children participate in religions not their own, I suggest this petition. Calling for an end to schools forcing these Abrahamic religions on our children against their parents' wishes. Compulsory worship is what these madmen want. Shocking.

'Until Mosques become inclusive to women and stop segregation of the sexes, I would not want my child to go to one either.'

You're ruling out gurdwaras and orthodox synagogues there too. And I don't think the OP's reasoning is the same as yours.

It's the mosque you object to.

Bet you don't object to visiting McDonalds twice in 3 years or basically anywhere else.

And because it's the mosque you object to that make you a .....

Please fill in the dotted line above with whatever hate language you might use against prejudiced or racist people because I would hate to get deleted again for being rude to racists

we went to Whitby Abbey three times in my secondary school and noone complained

oh wait. We did. Bitterly

Children change a lot in 3 years. That is why schools often recover topics more than once in more age appropriate detail

I didn't see your deleted post, Laurie, but am pretty sure I would have agreed with every word

Topseyt I'm pretty certain the kids at the op's kid's school would prefer Flamingoland. They'd be more than happy to go twice in 3 years too!!
Wouldn't learn anything though!!!!

LOVE the photo on that link, MrsT

There's all sorts of people who object to things being taught more than once.

I've certainly met plenty of parents who didn't want pshe taught as they'd 'already learned what sex was in year 6'

School is not there for entertainment, it's there to educate. Not everything is going to be thrilling.

*It's the mosque you object to.

Bet you don't object to visiting McDonalds twice in 3 years or basically anywhere else*

well actually I would object a school trip I was paying for, being anywhere twice in 3 years and I would object to a school trip to McD's fullstop.

twice in 3 years isn't a lot.

It's nice to teach children about other beliefs.

and also to show that all people are just people and perhaps combat prejudice and ignorance in the next and future generations.

I'm all for that.

I hope people actually click the link or I might get into the wrong section of peoples' spreadsheets

Maybe you need to find them some other places of worship in Bradford or other nearby town which would welcome the school trip if you don't want them to ever have to repeat one?

I'm guessing these three are the ones that are able to take school trips like this.

One non-Christian visit per year is hardly excessive.

1st year mosque, 2nd year sikh temple, 3rd year hindu temple....FOURTH year mosque again. Thats what you said?
Four school years, not three.

No one forces religious beliefs on those visits!

It's part of the curriculum not about religious conversion!