To judge parents who do not even tell their children Easter is a religious festival

[Tuliptana]

I'm shocked that 12 out of 20 children in my childs class had no religious knowledge of the meaning of Good Friday or Easter Sunday for Christians.
All aged 9yrs old.

OP do you judge parents who don’t know that the festival is pagan in origin and that many people have already celebrated Ostara at the spring equinox?

The Christians are late to the party!

I have finally found your question.

I can't answer it because I don't know which "cachment" you are referring to ?

But maybe this will help ?

www.privateschoolvillage.org/post/non-religious-private-schools-near-me

I think that's pretty good, actually. They'll have learned in RE, but surely you know if you ask any child what they learned in school today they’ll invariably say they 'don't know'. I just asked my y2 and these are his responses:
What do Christians believe happened on Good Friday?
DS: I forget. I know, but I forget.
What do Christians believe happened on Easter Sunday?
DS: Jesus came back.
You remember anything else?
DS: No.

He goes to a CofE school and is a bright pupil 🤷‍♀️

the notion that Christians ripped Easter off from pagans is debunked here https://historyforatheists.com/2017/04/easter-ishtar-eostre-and-eggs/

Oversubscribed just means more people applied than there were spaces - and when that could mean in some areas that the parents added them 6th of 6 preferences or as a late preference having not received an offer where they really wanted to go (or not at all once a whole bunch of offers are declined).

I'm also familiar with the content of Section 48 inspections in England, so I know exactly what's required and that it's the decision of the Diocese/Archdiocese whether everybody has to sit RE for GCSE in the case of CofE or RC schools.

Other schools can simply offer it as an option - and whilst the Archdiocese wouldn't like it, it would be perfectly possible for a non Diocesan RC school to decide to not make RE compulsory - it's usually a fairly easy shoe-in for higher grades with a greater proportion of kids from Faith Groups, especially if they are medium-higher attainment in English/Reading, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling at KS2).

Local authorities in England also stipulate the religious curriculum for maintained schools - and it is always very broad in scope at all phases.

I don't see the point of digging at people for the fun of it, though. They believe, which is the whole point of faith. Ripping the piss out of them for it isn't going to make them suddenly think 'Oh, you're right, it's all bollocks really, isn't it?'.

As Christianity is the world largest religion
and Easter is a time of
a school / public holiday irrespective of how long ago Jesus was killed and resurrected

It is sad that some people haven’t
in their lives just asked ‘ whats it all about ‘
Its also sad and surprising that nothing has even been mentioned in school

Curiosity is a good thing

That Christianity came up with wild ideas to try and force themselves away from Judaism and the power held by those leaders does not mean it’s a different God. Just a “true” way of viewing the same God.

I have no religious faith so I wouldn't tell ds about it as a belief.

He went to a broadly CoE primary school so he knows Easter Sunday is celebrated as the day Christ rose again. But he also knows the story of Eostre and understands that it is basically a celebration of spring, hope and new life.

I'm happy with that. If he wants to know more he can do his own research.

No I don’t because it’s a story from a fictional book that I find extremely problematic.

In a Catholic school in Ireland and it was never mentioned? Really?

@RawBloomers That Christianity came up with wild ideas

What "wild ideas" ?

The Trinity

Transubstantiation is not far behind either.

I’m not being flippant either, I do actually think about it. I think simnel cakes are delicious but maybe I shouldn’t eat them because I’m not a Christian.

I'm Irish. My passport has no relationship to the Catholic belief system that I was brought up with (and long ago rejected).

It's about time all schools were secular.

There is another festival at around this time too.

Jewish people celebrate Pesach or Passover. The story of their exodus from slavery in Egypt.

Again.... Irish here and no I do not (and I know very few people) who "uphold" religious values. In fact... Ireland is increasingly trying to seperate the Church and State.

There''s not one bit of Easter that I celebrate as a religious festival. I celebrate it as what it is, an ancient cultural celebration that pre-dates that story.

I can see that from some of the responses on this thread.

We are a secular household but have always brought our kids up to show an interest in religion as a way of understanding literature, history and other people's lives.

I'm an atheist but I find it a bit depressing that people dismiss learning about religion as some kind of badge of honour, just because they don't believe in it, although its not surprising in this day and age.

From a non-belief perspective, its really no different to learning about other cultures and it is odd that so many people seem to find some kind of weird pride in keeping their children wilfully ignorant of other cultures!

There are plenty of non Christians in Ireland.
I've had my Irish passport since birth and am embarrassed for you that you think it has anything to do with religion.

Celebrate as you wish but don't impose your views. My DC can choose what to believe, no indoctrination here thanks.

Why is that, IYO, a "wild idea" ?

OP says: I find this so disrespectful. Fine if you do not believe but please do not call my beliefs an old wives tale.

Atheists (like me) believe that religion is not true, so it's not surprising that most of us find it unworthy of the respect that religious believers accord it.

And obviously we're going to view the decline of religious belief as a good thing that should be encouraged.

I'm not really religious, but I still think it's sad that most children don't seem to know about the Easter story, instead all they think about is chocolate and Easter 'bunnies' (what happened to the word 'rabbit'?). We are still (just) described as a Christian country and I think kids should know the story. Don't they read the Bible in school any more?

I think more and more people are waking up to the fact religion in general is something to avoid, given a) it’s fictitious and b) does more bad than good in the world.

This is what the laugh react was for! Best explanation ever 😂😂😂

Don't Easter bonnets and Simnel cake and hot cross buns come into it somewhere?

What are you basing your statement of “most” on?