A Schola? A full range of extra curricular activities? A religious ambience?
NO WAY!
COMING SOON TO A SCHOOL NEAR YOU!
Throw it out, shut it down, forget choral performances as an extra curricular activity, let's instal a Muslim prayer room and remove all crucifixes from school premises (we don't wish to offend, after all). Do away with all of this courtesy to staff and fellow pupils, boys holding doors open for girls - we live in an equal opportunities society for goodness sake! As for starting each lesson with a prayer that is absolutely just OTT religious mania, the ethos must be all embracing, facilitating comfort for all pupils of all faiths and none, a few statues of the Buddha would not go amiss and, of course, we must celebrate all religious feasts equally so bring on Diwali and Eid and Ramadhan and let's not forget the dance around the fire at the Summer Solstice and we just cannot have school uniforms - that is so--oo elitist!
Please join the LOTH campaign to level out the academic excellence of our Catholic Schools and to introduce a bit of secularism!
Be careful, Richard. It was Bernard Levin who always used to complain of the tendency of real life to outstrip the wildest imaginings of the satirist. Don't give them ideas....
ReplyDeletePattif, any news on how the vigil went? If you have please send to r.collinsassoc@btinternet.com
ReplyDeleteThank you