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Faith schools?

(142 Posts)
baba Sat 18-Feb-12 10:30:44

Why? How on earth can we expect children to appreciate differences in others if they are educated in a single faith school? Religion, faith or whatever is a matter for the family not the education system, unless of course, one wishes to perpetrate the isolation of particular groups. This doesn't square with our expressed desire for integration.
Or is it me?

jeni Mon 20-Feb-12 14:12:04

jingsmile

whatisamashedupphrase Mon 20-Feb-12 13:54:53

I could be janglyjinglejinglwhatisamashedupphrase, if that helps at all.

It wouldn't, would it?

OK!!! shock

JosieGransnet (GNHQ) Mon 20-Feb-12 12:32:28

To clarify - we don't allow users to sign up to Gransnet with more than one username. However, if a user deletes their registration, they may sign up to the forum again with the same email address but a different username. Quick reminder of our guidelines here www.gransnet.com/info/netiquette.

Hope that clears things up.

Greatnan Mon 20-Feb-12 12:23:13

What a sensible and interesting post, Baba.

whatisamashedupphrase Mon 20-Feb-12 12:06:53

God is not an external being. smile

baba Mon 20-Feb-12 12:04:56

Thank you for all your comments.
What we all need most is faith in ourselves, not in some external being. Then we shall truly start to take responsibility for ourselves by being answerable to noone but ourselves for our own lives. I respect all faiths and the great teachers they have produced but I do not look for or expect help or forgiveness from anywhere but inside myself.
This is not something I've come up with recently. It struck me as a fundamental truth when I was 15.

jeni Sun 19-Feb-12 12:36:37

No! I'm just 7ft tall, blue, and flying around.

JessM Sun 19-Feb-12 12:30:17

Not a scatty old dear jeni and clearly neither are you.
Alluring notion of having multiple identities and having debates with oneself...

Elegran Sun 19-Feb-12 12:24:53

A second identity needs a second email address, otherwise they notice.

jeni Sun 19-Feb-12 12:20:47

You are all lovely! Now let's get back to the serious business of being scatty old dearsgrin

Greatnan Sun 19-Feb-12 12:01:18

Thank you - my friends think so.

whatisamashedupphrase Sun 19-Feb-12 11:55:46

What a nice lady.

Greatnan Sun 19-Feb-12 11:50:54

Thank you, whatshername, I feel quite light enough! I was just curious as to the mechanism of getting multiple identities on a forum - I don't give a toss what you want to call yourself.

whatisamashedupphrase Sun 19-Feb-12 11:29:46

Did you have a nice holiday Glass? smile Nice to see another sane person you back on. smile

whatisamashedupphrase Sun 19-Feb-12 11:28:35

Look, I didn't bring this thread round to me again! hmm

whatisamashedupphrase Sun 19-Feb-12 11:27:55

Greatnan lighten up! grin My forum name is 'whatisamashedupphrase' but most people who come on here regularly know I'm still 'jingl'.

It just came about with wandering off and then having to practically bash the door down to get back in. Try it. smile

glassortwo Sat 18-Feb-12 23:42:25

I have lost the plot now, think its time for bed grin

Greatnan Sat 18-Feb-12 23:37:23

Don't tell me she uses him for that as well!
Lional Blue is 81 and has Parkinson's Disease.

jeni Sat 18-Feb-12 23:26:15

Gok

Greatnan Sat 18-Feb-12 23:24:16

How do you manage to become two different persons on a forum - all of my expat forums won't accept more than one name from any e-mail address.
(Not that I want another name, I am very happy to be myself.)

jeni Sat 18-Feb-12 23:23:38

Night night

glassortwo Sat 18-Feb-12 23:17:44

thought you had another change of name jingle wink

whatisamashedupphrase Sat 18-Feb-12 23:12:48

Night night. God bless. x smile

whatisamashedupphrase Sat 18-Feb-12 23:11:31

"God knows where jings is"

No, Bags, you don't need an exclamation mark after that. smile It's just a simple statement of fact. smile Always. smile

jeni Sat 18-Feb-12 22:20:08

I hope it comes off your bathroom floor better than my carpet!
Dormez bien ma vielle chere