This section chronicles (it’s an epic!) my experience of taking action against religious education (indoctrination) classes at my Daughter’s school. I want to make it really clear that I am not against Christians, I just don’t want evangelical Christians to have access to primary school kids so that they can spread their beliefs.
This section is multi-part true story. If you want to read from the start of it, you can find the beginning here.
Should we put religious instruction to the vote? Is it fair and reasonable to ask parents to vote on whether or not to close a secular school and promote some people’s religious faith? I don’t think so!
It’s a shame that we even have to think about keeping our local primary school honest but unfortunately, without someone keeping watch, it is amazing how much religious influence can creep in if no one steps up and asks some hard questions.
So the Board of Trustees elections are over and the votes are counted. Find out what happened and how it went down. It wasn’t quite as vicious as Trump versus Clinton but it was pretty close!
I’ve thrown my hat in the ring and stood for a place on the board of trustees with the removal of bible classes as part of my platform. In a couple of weeks we’ll know what happens!
For some time now, I’ve had the odd pamphlet promoting Christian beliefs popping up in my mailbox. You know the ones… the Grapevine or Watchtower […]
The Churches Education Commission has been contacting congregations all over the country asking their parishioners to pray and write to the Ministry of Education and their MP’s to encourage them to support their case for retaining Bible in Schools classes. I thought I would contact one of them and see what they thought!
Whenever the topic of Bible in Schools comes up on facebook, there’s a lot of supporters who have opinions about why bible classes are important and how the world will end if it’s taken out because our kids will turn to the dark side and the gates of hell will open. But do any of their reasons hold water?
It’s pretty shocking to me that the school is so paranoid about this blowing up in their faces that they’re prepared to try and gag me rather than deal with the issue.
So I posted on the school facebook page. My first comment on the newsletter was deleted within 2 minutes of posting it (now that is […]
What with Xmas and New Year and just being busy, it took a while to meet with Ministry of Education Northland Regional Director, Hira Gage. […]
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