Crass teacher

DOH ! What a plonker.

Oh dear.

Idiot.

I suppose the usual Buddah does resemble a yoga pose. David Beckham doing yoga? Possible perhaps.

He put a lot of thought into that one!

(Rude words)

Oh my word Hope he doesn't have/hasn't got children of his own - that wouldn't bode well . . . . .

Perhaps it was wrong of me to have laughed out loud for a very long time when I read this...

It's really dreadful! but

I thought it was funny too. Wouldn't have been bothered in the slightest by the Jesus idea either. Kind of shows how silly some homework ideas are though, and presumably only thought up because of a homework 'policy' that they could ditch anyhow.

Looking deeper though, I think I can see where the teacher was coming from with this idea. Take a man, any man, and you can dress him up as various characters but he remains the same man in the end. And the fact that whoever the original man is/was, in the end he's still just a man. Valuing diversity lesson. I've come across sillier ideas with that heading.

I have reason to believe that this teacher was not thinking deeper!

I agree one is torn between laughing and exasperation.

It's funny how you can buy Buddha statues left right and centre, even ones for the garden, but you can't buy Jesus ones.

Incredible, really. Mind you, I think I already mentioned the open evening at a primary school where I was doing a teaching practice- where they had the first ever Diwali celebration with a dance show where all the kids were involved- all the Hindu parents were invited- and at the end, the Head said something like 'what a wonderful evening with lot of colour and dance- now let's bow our heads and pray to the good Lord Jesus who made such an event possible'

If I could have dug a hole and disappeared, I would have.

And the local Methodist preacher who used to come to talk to kids in Assembly from time to time, and chose Navrati day to talk about idolatry in Christianity and how wrong and terrible it was, etc.

Plenty of Jesus statues on sale in Italy jingle also the Madonna and various saints.

I can see that dressing Buddha up as famous people could be an interesting exercise, but the trouble is that so few famous people are Buddha shaped.

And so it comes to pass!! If you wish to buy statues and you have a faith, you can buy them in your own church - absolutely no need to travel to Italy!

I meant you don't see Jesus statues in garden centres. You do see Buddah ones.

I know about cathedral shops and the like.

(I don't actually want a statue of Jesus)

If enough customers asked for them, B&Q would stock them.

When we visited Assisi and the area, I really did feel sorry for St Francis- the amount of tat sold in his name would make him turn in his pauper's grave (:

Not a thoughtful activity on the face of it. However it might depend on what had gone on in the lesson and the context of the work.

If however it was a hurridly thought of, 'OMG..homework.....' then not v good at all!

Elegran we could give it a go. How about tomorrow afternoon. We all descend on B & Q and ask for Jesus?

That didn't really come out right.

It takes me two buses to get to B&Q and I have been three times in the last week (repainting front door and vestibule, and checking non availablity of calcium carbonate for DIY chalk paint) so it is up to you Jings. Hope you find Jesus.

Flip me, you've been busy while I was lying on the garden bench reading me book!

Go to marble mountain quarry between Da Nang and Hue and they have every statue you have ever not wanted to buy from weeping madonnas to emaciated Buddhas as well as reclining nudes, swans and cute penguins. They also have a pagoda with a lift . Probably a lot easier to get to than B&q on the bus.

But do they have calcium carbonate? £14 for a one-litre tin of chalk paint is a bit steep when I have a cellar full of half tins of emulsion in every colour of the rainbow.