Church schools in Britain

[Darwinian]

Precisely the reason my children won't be going anywhere near a religious school. It's all very well to say "it's up to you to decide on your beliefs", but that doesn't mean I'm going to shove them in at the deep end and tell them to swim. There is no point putting them in a deluded system in the first place.

In answer to your question, I wouldn't expect this was illegal. It is a CofE school, so they are probably required to do some form of indoctrination. In fact, I vaguely remember doing stuff like this as a child in my school.

Easier said than done! If where you live is anything like here then most of the schools are either CofE or Catholic.

However, it must be said that these schools are not like pure faith schools as they are state run. However, you have to be careful as most of the teachers seem to be Christian and can't help but push their religious views onto the children, however innocent it may be to them.

Luckily my son is pretty immune to all this stuff and anything that dares question his love of evolution and natural history is instantly rejected.

It's a shame though. His school has regular visits from the local vicar and (spit) the Christian Puppet Show but they never seem to have visits from biologists, astronomers and other scientists.

Adrian: Perhaps you should approach a few schools and ask if you can give a talk about atheism, secularism and how we are in fact actually very nice people who just want to keep an open mind about the nature of reality.