Primary school branded ‘disgraceful’ as it cancels annual Easter celebration to ‘respect diverse religious beliefs’
https://www.lbc.co.uk/hot-topics/schools/primary-school-backlash-scraps-annual-easter-celebration-respect-diversity/
Posted by LoquaciousLord1066
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Cancelling something doesn’t respect shit lmao. If your school is so diverse you should instead be celebrating everything to make all children feel included and part of a community.
Feels like it was done for financial reasons and this is just a shit excuse.
I can think of one religion they wont cancel stuff for…
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If this happened when I was a kid my mum would be fuming, she got proper competitive about the prize for best Easter Bonnet.
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Take all religion out of school. Learn about the real world.
That makes no sense. If they wanted to respect each culture and religion you’d just celebrate them all lol not cancel them all
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Are we turning the annual “they’ve banned Christmas, you can’t even say ‘merry Christmas’ anymore” into a biannual media nonsense? When did this come in?
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Just call it giant chocolate egg weekend instead, no one actually cares about the religion bit anyway.
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It’s funny to watch a story that started on the town’s Facebook rant page slowly grow nationally over the week.
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Why not celebrate all the diverse religious holidays then? Use it as a learning experience for the kids that shows them they live in a multi cultural society.
Cancelling stuff like this achieves nothing. Also, it implies non Christian people will be offended by Easter, spoiler they aren’t.
My guess is, they saw a way to save money and needed an excuse.
A disgrace. Every child should learn about the Easter bunny, Easter bonnets and Easter eggs as they were described by the apostles in the Bible.
Religion and education shouldn’t mix. Celebrate your beliefs outside of school after you’ve done your science and maths homework.
This is stupid.
By this logic it explains them cancelling the Easter service, but how does cancelling the Easter bonnet parade respect diverse religious beliefs?
I almost believe this is rage bait because otherwise this country is becoming more pathetic.
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The kids are all just dead happy they don’t need to go into school on a Sunday
My god these people are fucking asking for it.. they bring shame to progressives
Those diverse religious people should respect children’s activities in school.
Just another example of how pathetic and entrenched in left wing dogma this country has become.
How odd.
I went to a very ethnically and culturally diverse primary school in the 80s and that meant that every religious holiday got celebrated. It was awesome.
My friend worked in a school that had pride month but instructed the teachers not to mention lgbt. It was more about being proud of who you are. They even had LGBT teachers working there. We need to stop putting religion on a pedestal. Especially to a point where we aren’t even capable of acknowledging the lifestyles of those around us.
Easter is much older than Christianity. Celebrating spring is as old as humanity in moderate latitudes. It means you survived another winter.
Good. It’s a non-religious school and the head has decided not to offer participation in any faith’s traditions but there will still be celebrations or acknowledgments, just generic ones. Teaching religion in state schools is one thing but offering observance is quite another, and concentrating on the morality at the core of religion rather than the trappings of each individual one might result in fewer parents pulling their kids out of them.