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andrewducker) wrote2009-05-08 02:42 pm
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It's all about God
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[Poll #1396727]
The train of thought presumably goes like this:
1) Children should be trained to do the morally correct thing until they are old enough to make their own decisions.
2) Praying to God is the morally right thing to do.
Therefore) Children should be trained to pray.
I can't see that lasting much longer, when the majority don't believe (2).
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"the required collective worship shall be wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character."
Does worship not mean the same thing as prayer here?
I may well be misunderstanding here, but that's what it looks like to me:
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=2281166
According to OFSTED 20% of schools do actually follow this.
http://www.archive2.official-documents.co.uk/document/deps/ofsted/170/05-secondary.html
Certainly the schools I went to as a child did on a daily basis, and it seems to be the legal standpoint, just one that's thankfully ignored more than it's followed.
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