To want to know exactly what my children are being taught?

[lunar1]

It was raining this morning when I asked ds1 to open the curtains. He looked out the window and informed me that Jesus was crying! He said his teacher told them that in class.

It's not likely is it? It's not a faith school and only really does the minimum to adhere to the act of daily worship. I've no objection to them being taught about religion but not in this way.

I'm really hoping he had got confused. Would I be unreasonable to go into school and ask about it?

[HagOtheNorth]

It could well have been one of the children who said it, not his teacher. Children pick up weird shit at home and share it at school I often wonder what they're been taught at home. Then they argue about which mummy or daddy is telling the truth.

[OrlandoWoolf]

The playground has been a valuable source of information about the world for DS.I think he learns more there than in school!!

[Lovecat]

My mother, one of the most fervent Catholics you could hope to meet, would say that God had left the taps running if it rained. Also the moving furniture one about thunder. You needn't waste your time getting offended on behalf of the religious amongst us, Vivacia, they're likely to be the ones making the joke in the first place.

[reni1]

I thought thunder was Zeus having a tantrum. I also used to believe apple trees will grow in my tummy if I ate the pips. Don't worry about the weeping Jesus in the rain. Just add plenty more nonsensical fun things.

[TrollshaveLittleWillies]

Peter Sylvester, the man who said that the floods were caused by the fact 'gay marriages' were legalised is standing for election as an independent town councillor - I really hope he doesn't get in. My DSis lives in Henley and says he has never actually apologised. He was originally a conservative candidate who defected to UKIP.

My DS was told by his teacher about the power of pyramids she did it in all seriousness and even set up a tent pyramid so they could feel the 'energy' for themselves. Fortunately my DS could work out for himself that she was talking bollux.

I used to tell my DC loads of jokey made up bollux. It was ok because they knew it was bollux. It's different from a teacher doing it.

[HowDoesThatWork]

If folk's deeply held beliefs are ridiculous, they deserve ridicule. I respect your right to have ridiculous beliefs, but I do not respect the beliefs. Somebody clever said that, but I have forgotten who

[Nibledbyducks]

Vivacia If you believe that God made us in his own image then I will assume he also farts.

[cruikshank]

I do get pissed off by some of the crap they get from school. Even in our supposedly non-faith one, all it needs is a couple of strident god-botherers to tip the balance, and I've had words with the head about it a number of times. Ofc, he's a Xtian, so it largely falls on deaf ears because ultimately he doesn't see anything wrong with it but really teachers should not be foisting their views on children in this manner. I wonder if people would be so relaxed about teachers talking about the prophet Mohammed in a way that presented the teaching of Islam as fact. Because for those of us trying to bring up our children without the cant and hypocrisy of religion, it's just the same shit, different god.

[HagOtheNorth]

That's a different issue to being taught actual bollocks though. That's about the legal requirement to educate children about religion.
www.natre.org.uk/about-re/legal-requirements/

I always preface it with 'X believe that…' and I also make the point that just like some Christians go to church every Sunday, some go on feast days and some only go for weddings, funeral and baptisms, other faiths have the same variety.
But it's the law, so if you don't want it, teachers can't change or pick and choose. If you don't want it taught in schools, you need to lobby for change or withdraw your child from RE lessons.

[Runnaway]

Let it wash past. Most intelligent people grow out of religion. Your child will hopefully be the same.

I know plenty of intelligent people who also hold religious beliefs. Had no idea they had in fact not grown out of it. You learn something new everyday on mumsnet.

[Andrewofgg]

Thunder is clouds rolling into each other, or so I was told.

[GoodbyeToAllOfThat]

I don't get worked up about anything my kids hear at school about religion, provided it stays out of the science class. Weird people are an education unto themselves.

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

I was raised Catholic and I remember saying that rain was God weeing when I was a kid. I've turned out to be an atheist with a perfect understanding of precipitation.

I remember learning about the transubstantiation before holy communion. Being weed on by God has nothing on a spot of cannibalism every Sunday (as my child's mind processed it)

[cece]

I taught about Jesus's disciples once. One of the children went home and said they wanted to become a Christian. The mother came in to complain that I was trying to convert her DC. I am an atheist which my HT gently explained to the mother. The whole lesson was This is what Christian's believe... type of thing

[DontBeAMeanie]

In infant school my DC were often taught 'facts' such as there are penguins in The Artic and that Africa is a country. They were also taught incorrect French and English. There were lots more examples. The teachers were ok but the teaching assistants were not good