Not really. coz we don't criticise religious fundamentalists for being concerned with good education. We criticise what they think that is. https://twitter.com/omnissiuntone/status/790590259776069632 …
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@omnissiuntone Its not the kids who don't take teaching at school seriously that we should judge its effect by. Its the ones who do.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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TBF, kids love violence and death in stories. Just look at most nursery rhymes, stories and stuff by Roald Dahl.
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Yes. Headmistress said she'd have to learn abt Tudors. She loved it. 1/2
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The difference was that she wasn't told that Mary Tudor was still alive & watching everything she did.
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We only kept her out for half a year. The GP referred her to a counsellor for the panic attacks & insomnia.
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We showed her how many gods & weird beliefs there were &she stopped believing. Then she wasn't scared anymore
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This when I met others whose kids also frightened by violent stories presented as true & began opposing it.
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She loves RE now & this needn't have happened if they'd made it age appropriate & not presented it as true.
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Indeed. Even when I was a kid & a believer, I was always told God was real but the stories were just myths.
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Not sure that's the message young chn internalise. OT ethics dodgy for sure, but usually presented in benign folksy way.
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How? How do you present genocide as benign? You can distract some kids from it but others will still imagine the drowning.
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My son was also traumatised by the Noah's Ark story. I was simultaneously angry with the school and proud of him.
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I've met many parents whose kids have been now.
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