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BBC News reports that students in post-compulsory education in state schools will no longer have to attend religious services. This, along with the fact that Ofsted delivers no more that a quick ’slap on the wrists’ to schools which don’t ensure a ‘daily act of collective worship’ means that I believe this to be the beginning of the end of religious education in schools. First the daily act of collective worship will be officially scrapped, and then Religious Education will be subsumed under either Citizenship or PSHE…
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Experts i know also say that Doug. They see it as the beginning of a new era for the christian faith, a very positive thing that it is to be de-institutionalised and get away from the powerful ties that bind.
I suppose it’s a good thing in that it would end the charade. But then it would end pretty much any opportunities local churches have for going into schools to get across the message.