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Originally Posted by blazey
My school didn't force religion on anyone though all catholic students were expected to attend mass but it was just a gathering like an assembly really, it didn't teach the strict catholic views nor did it impose having holy communion on anyone if they didn't want to.
My school accepted muslim students though and I know there were other children from different religions who went, for example I recall a rastafarian girl at the school who used to live on my street.
Religious schools generally aren't strict anymore in that sense and you choose to send your child to a religious school anyway so it's simple enough to opt out of it entirely. Why should the choice to go to a religious school be taken away though? I chose to go to my high school even though I could have gone to another non-religious school.
Can children not make religious choices?
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Well blazey its changed since I went to school, I went to St Mary's, and we had a Sunday Mass register, i.e. you had to have a good excuse for not going. You had to learn the catachism from front to back, and was regulaly questioned abou it, and had the teachings of the church rammeddown your neck at every oppertunity, but I'm still a card carring member
