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AIBU?

to not want DS to go to school which doesn't celebrate Christmas?

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Clarathemagnificent · 21/07/2016 22:46

We are currently researching primary schools for DS who is due to start next September.

There is one which is literally metres from our front door which has a good local reputation and excellent results.

However, there is one thing which doesn't sit right with me and that is that the school doesn't celebrate Christian festivals such as Easter and Christmas. There is no school nativity and so on. They have a 'Celebration lunch' at Christmas but the word Christmas is deliberately not used so as not to offend those of other cultures.

This makes me extremely uncomfortable because although I'm not a Christian myself, I feel it's an important part of our culture and identity as a Christian country. I also disagree with the idea that celebrating Christianity can be offensive to others and think this very notion is divisive in itself. It concerns me a great deal especially considering we are from an ethnic minority.

AIBU to consider not sending DS to this school purely for these reasons even though by all other accounts it's a good school?

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peachpudding · 22/07/2016 15:04

Yes,well we are sleep walking into this. You wait, in 20 years time,if we carry on the way we are,the U.K. Will no longer be a Christian country.

LOL so this thread has descended to the gutter.

We are not sleep walking into it we are running, with our hands in the air, cheering hooray because we don't believe that religious crap anymore.

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sorenofthejnaii · 22/07/2016 15:13

What is a Christian country? Christianity is practiced by a minority of people. What do you think a Christian country would look like?

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Dawndonnaagain · 22/07/2016 15:21

More erosion of our culture and heritage

Our way of life is being eroded. School nativity plays, making Christmas cards and Christmas ( not winter) fayers are all going out the window in the name of political correctness . Sitting just learning about it is not the same.

Utter Tosh!

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sorenofthejnaii · 22/07/2016 15:24

Just out of interest, who is us?When you say 'our way of life '

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PurpleDaisies · 22/07/2016 15:25

Where is this school that doesn't "celebrate" Christmas?

I'm a Christian. I'm totally fine with people not choosing to celebrate Christmas (and schools not forcing children to take part in religious activities such as plays). They have to learn what Christmas is all about in re anyway, along with the other big religious festivals. What does it matter if there's no nativity? Just go to church if it bothers you.

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peachpudding · 22/07/2016 15:50

My DC went to a C of E primary, did plays in December but never a nativity, had a winter fayre with santa and a disco, spent a day making xmas cards for their parents. Is that celebrating xmas? seemed pretty normal at the time.

As for Easter, cant remember any celebrations in seven years, except the teacher brought chocolates in.

Ironically Halloween was banned, god knows why, which upset a LOT of parents because Halloween is a big deal for the kids in my part of town.

Some of the teachers would slip their creationism into lessons but I let that nonsense go because it was usually from doddery old women and DC were clever enough to understand that people like that used to think the earth was flat...