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[Nickbat]

My son just got home from school. He's quite a chatterbox.

"Dad, when you leave a room you must turn out the light."

"You shouldn't have the heating on very much, you should wrap up in blankets."

"You shouldn't drive your car except on long journeys and you shouldn't fly or use rockets, 'cos it puts bad things into the air."

Me: "What bad things?"

"Can't remember what it was called."

Me: "Where did you learn all this?"

"In class today".

He's just turned [size=16]5[/size] and most of his reception classmates are just [size=16]4[/size] years old.

Never to young to receive the Greenie message, it would seem.

 

[STMO999]

My lad came home with this all this stuff a while back. I told him to tell his teacher to teach him maths and english and I would look after his social conscience.

When he came home the next night he said that he couldn't remember what I'd said so he told his teacher that his dad said she was talking rubbish.

Cant wait for parents evening.

[waspy]

you shouldn't fly or use rockets, 'cos it puts bad things into the air."

Fly rockets hey Nickbat, how often do you do that

[Gaffers]

My lad came home with this all this stuff a while back. I told him to tell his teacher to teach him maths and english and I would look after his social conscience.

When he came home the next night he said that he couldn't remember what I'd said so he told his teacher that his dad said she was talking rubbish.

Cant wait for parents evening.

PMSL!  He's definitely a chip off the old block then! 

[bob.dent]

My lad came home with this all this stuff a while back. I told him to tell his teacher to teach him maths and english and I would look after his social conscience.

When he came home the next night he said that he couldn't remember what I'd said so he told his teacher that his dad said she was talking rubbish.

Cant wait for parents evening.

Looks like he got it about right then Steve!!

[Brick Tamland]

My lad came home with this all this stuff a while back. I told him to tell his teacher to teach him maths and english and I would look after his social conscience.

When he came home the next night he said that he couldn't remember what I'd said so he told his teacher that his dad said she was talking rubbish.

Cant wait for parents evening.

Make sure he gets what he wants for christmass

[Richie London]

i took my son out of religious education 5 years ago, told them i would take them to court if they forced him to learn any other religion but his own. in the 5 years he was there his class learnt every other religion but the COE. he had an extra hr doing IT instead.

[cruisetopoland]

i took my son out of religious education 5 years ago, told them i would take them to court if they forced him to learn any other religion but his own. in the 5 years he was there his class learnt every other religion but the COE. he had an extra hr doing IT instead.

I recently wrote to my school to let them know the most useful part of my entire education was their idea of taking us all around every religious site in the city to take part in their culture, as part of RE.  We went to various temples and mosques over the weeks-seeing normal people worshipping, not the extremists we hear so much about.  It had a profound effect on my understanding.

My Mother is a COE vicar and fully supported the idea.
I would rather pull a child out of IT and get them to relate to a person not a "thing"....

Not a criticism, just another point of view 

[Marks DTM Calib]

My lad came home with this all this stuff a while back. I told him to tell his teacher to teach him maths and english and I would look after his social conscience.

When he came home the next night he said that he couldn't remember what I'd said so he told his teacher that his dad was talking rubbish.

Cant wait for parents evening.

Lol, even your sibling has your card marked! 

[albitz]

Another possible cause for concern regarding educational indoctrination of children is the governments announcement last week that in the near future pupils from the age of 5 upwards will be taught about sex,drugs and relationships, and parents will not have the right to have their children excluded from these lessons.

[Tony H]

Brain washing and indoctrination is most effective when it is started at an early age. 

[Del Boy]

i took my son out of religious education 5 years ago, told them i would take them to court if they forced him to learn any other religion but his own. in the 5 years he was there his class learnt every other religion but the COE. he had an extra hr doing IT instead.

School won't allow my son to do anything else, all they say is it's compulsary, he usually goes to McDonalds whenever he has it which doesn't bother me to be honest, he has been on numerous reports for it too, I have asked if he could do something more productive but they said to me he simply has to do it.

[Richie London]

i took my son out of religious education 5 years ago, told them i would take them to court if they forced him to learn any other religion but his own. in the 5 years he was there his class learnt every other religion but the COE. he had an extra hr doing IT instead.

I recently wrote to my school to let them know the most useful part of my entire education was their idea of taking us all around every religious site in the city to take part in their culture, as part of RE.  We went to various temples and mosques over the weeks-seeing normal people worshipping, not the extremists we hear so much about.  It had a profound effect on my understanding.

My Mother is a COE vicar and fully supported the idea.
I would rather pull a child out of IT and get them to relate to a person not a "thing"....

Not a criticism, just another point of view 

i have no time for religion at all. as long as its not thrown in my face i dont give a hoot about it.

[Del Boy]

i took my son out of religious education 5 years ago, told them i would take them to court if they forced him to learn any other religion but his own. in the 5 years he was there his class learnt every other religion but the COE. he had an extra hr doing IT instead.

I recently wrote to my school to let them know the most useful part of my entire education was their idea of taking us all around every religious site in the city to take part in their culture, as part of RE.  We went to various temples and mosques over the weeks-seeing normal people worshipping, not the extremists we hear so much about.  It had a profound effect on my understanding.

My Mother is a COE vicar and fully supported the idea.
I would rather pull a child out of IT and get them to relate to a person not a "thing"....
Not a criticism, just another point of view 

I couldn't agree less with that   :-/

[Nickbat]

The more I think about this, the more insidious I find it.

At the age of 5:

My son does not have a driving licence.
He has not, at least to my knowledge, booked any flights.
He cannot operate the central heating programmer.
He can barely reach the light switches.

In other words, he was learning about behaviour which is not in his control, and will not be for many a year.

Then it struck me. All this he listened to today in class was not for his benefit at all. It was to ensure that it got back to his parents. In other words, using children to influence adult behaviour.

Is that ethical? Or is it exploiting kids' innocent acceptance of anything a teacher says?

I am feeling increasingly uncomfortable about this.