Strongly Christian harvest festival in non-faith school

[Hooliesmoolies]

I am really annoyed about the Harvest festival at my child's school. The leadership of the school are strongly Christian and I am offended at the way they impose their own beliefs on my child's state school. I know that an act of worship is within the regulations, however the way it is implemented varies MASSIVELY across schools. And evidently, there is no choice because I live in London and so we are just lucky to have a good school at the end of the road. I'm not going to put my full rant here, but I am going to post this:

www.change.org/p/end-compulsory-worship-in-schools

For anyone who feels like me!!

I can't see anyone objecting to that either, htm (apart, perhaps, from people who think singing Mr Scarecrow is tantamount to worshipping satan), but that's not the sort of harvest festival the OP was unhappy about.

Harvest Festival is right up there with Xmas and Easter for me. It's just something all schools do.

No they don't. The only time I experienced a Harvest Festival was the 2.5 years I wasn't at faith schools.

Given this, I'm baffled at the lengths some of the same atheists go to in order to 'protect' their children from similar exposure. Surely the child will have the same capacity as its parent to make up its own mind in due course?

If you went through an unpleasant experience in childhood whether bullied, illness, abuse or whatever but came out the other side OK why would you want your child to go through the same thing?

duhgldiuhfdsli I'm afraid that it definitely has Christian roots

You do realise that there are religions older than Judaism? Just because a celebration is mentioned in one holy book does not mean it has its origins there.

I suspect celebrating the harvest is a pretty universal part of agricultural societies.