Atheist in Catholic school

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Our DD started in a Catholic school last week and we're atheists - or, at least, me and her mother are, I don't suppose you can really assign a tag like that to a 4 year old. She's going to that school because we live out in the countryside and it's our local school, and besides 90-something percent of schools in Ireland are Catholic.

Anyway, they do a morning prayer in class, and the idea is making me feel a little squirmy. We discussed it with the principal before she started, and he recommended we don't take her out of the classroom when there's religious education going on so she wouldn't feel excluded, but now I feel odd about the whole thing

Any thoughts?

You do make me laff UnQ Dad.

While being perfectly serious? Neat trick.

I'm a Catholic and have put 5 kids through Catholic schools (after trying the county schools) but have found they never shove the religion down their throats so to speak - especially kids of different denominations. Just try to relax a little and remember that there's absolutely nothing to say any single one of these kids will actually be Catholic when they grow up. In our school there's Hindu's, Muslims and Jehovah's etc and provision is made for them and it's what you do at home that will make more of an impact on your little bloke. Good luck!

UnQ Dad - but Paris Hilton and Katie Price and that one of the Disney Channel are not imaginary. These are the godesses that inflict damange on young people's self-esteem, self worth and sense of aspiration.