الى المصريين بانجلترا احذرو دروس الدين و الصلاة بالمدارس

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الى المصريين بانجلترا احذرو دروس الدين Religious Education (RE) و الصلاة بالمدارس Collectice Worship

تفرض المدارس على التلاميذ فى انجلترا دروس الدين Religious Education (RE) و الصلاة بالمدارس Collectice Worship

مما لا فيه شك انه يصاحب هذا النشاط محاولات مستترة للتبشير و التنصير مما يجعل الطفل افكاره مشوشة و ما قد يوءثر على الطفل فى الكبر

طبعا البيت مهم ولكن المدرسة قدتكون موءثرة على المدي الطويل

لذلك الوقاية خيرا من العلاج

القانون يعطى ولى الامر الحق من الانسحاب من هذه الانشطة مرفق لكم النص القانونى و كيفية الانسحاب بكتابة خطاب باللغة الانجليزية

الاخ الفاضل المشرف ارجوك لا تمسح النص الانجيليزي حيث انه ليس له وصلة حتى يستطيع كل مسلم حماية اولاده من التنصير

الاخ الفاضل المشرف ارجوك ارسل النص و ارسله الى كل المسلمين بالخارج

الاخوة المسلمون لو ساءلتم المدرسة عن امكانية الانسحاب سوف يردون باجابة ماءعة ولن يطلعوكم على حقوقكم

الاخوة المسلمون لو ساءلتم المدرسة عن امكانية الانسحاب سوف يردون باجابة ماءعة ولن يطلعوكم على حقوقكم

الاخوة المسلمون لو ساءلتم المدرسة عن امكانية الانسحاب سوف يردون باجابة ماءعة ولن يطلعوكم على حقوقكم

Please distribute this E mail or as leaflets to all muslim you know in the UK, and consider acting strongly upon it, and withdrawing your child from Acts of collective worship and/ or religious education (RE).

WITHDRAWING CHILDREN FROM RE LESSONS AND ACTS OF COLLECTIVE WORSHIP?

For reasons we assume you will realise, muslims in the UK want proselytising RE lessons removed from the school timetable. One of the major arguments against the removal of RE as a subject is that it would be a disservice to pupils for them not to learn at least the basics about the world’s different religions. Yet practically all secularists would be happy with pupils being taught about world beliefs, provided that they were not taught in excessive detail, no religion was given special preference, and that the non-religious position was covered too (and accorded no less respect than the religious ones).

Because of the Government’s preoccupation with religion, any campaign to abandon or drastically reform the present form of RE is doomed to failure. Muslim parents therefore need to consider the best option available under current arrangements, however unsatisfactory. Withdrawal is one possibility; and we give some helpful advice on how to go about this, but we also examine below difficulties associated with withdrawal.

Parents have the statutory right to withdraw their children from RE lessons and acts of Collective Worship at all maintained schools, including faith schools. Sadly, less than 1% of parents exercise this right; and most of them are Muslims, unhappy at their children being taught about other faiths.

Until now, however, muslims have perhaps been deterred from taking such action because of feelings of isolation if acting alone. This would become less of a problem if, as the Society suggests, parents suggest that other parents join them – but this might be difficult in a religious school. Once a few parents start the ball rolling, others will soon get the message. And once the other pupils hear about this wheeze, they would soon employ ‘pester power’ to persuade their parents to withdraw them as well from Collective Worship, and, hopefully from RE too. In one school where such a campaign was mounted, the school even agreed to allow those children who had been withdrawn from Collective Worship to start ten minutes later than the rest; perhaps the head teacher was a secularist!

Two specimen letters follow. The first letter alerts parents to their legal right of withdrawal; the second is one they can send to their head teacher to exercise this right. Muslim parents are invited to circulate both letters. They could easily fit on one sheet.

Parents may also want to consider their motives in this. It would be all too easy for parents frustrated at RE and CW to unwittingly draw their children as unwilling pawns into the parents’ own battle with the school.

If the latest information we are receiving applies widely, perhaps the largest fly in the ointment arises where RE is being offered as a GCSE examination. One member has informed us that when contemplating removing his child from RE, he was told by the school that “RE is an easy GCSE subject which can be studied with nominal homework in only half the time a normal subject takes up. Removing children from this subject would merely reduce the number of GCSE's they could get.” Making RE the easiest subject by far is just another insidious way of bringing further pressure for pupils to take RE seriously.

The foregoing quote explains the reason behind the RE examination growing rapidly in popularity, despite RE itself being the least favourite subject (according to a survey).

We are reliably informed however that it is possible to do well in this examination while taking a well-argued non-believing stance. We also know of a number of well-informed, articulate and non-believing pupils (mainly sons and daughters of members) who take RE but we rather suspect that their schools wish, because of these pupils relentless questioning, that they didn’t.

Maybe the foregoing suggests an alternative tactic: opting out of Collective Worship but attending RE, and encouraging the open expression of atheist/secularist views in RE lessons!

If parents find religion being taught as fact rather than information in RE lessons, as it is in many, parents ought to complain to the Head Teacher – but are likely to get short shrift in Catholic schools. Instead, teachers should say: “Christians (or whoever) believe ….” And, hopefully, it may just be possible to encourage the school to give some positive coverage to non-religious life stances.

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Specimen letter to parents

Dear Parent

I am writing to make sure that you are aware that you have the legal right to withdraw your child from RE lessons and acts of Collective Worship in publicly funded or maintained schools. This right can be exercised even if your child goes to a faith based school.

Withdrawal is easy; no confrontation is necessary. It simply entails writing a short letter similar to the sample [overleaf]. The letter expresses your desire to have your child withdrawn from RE lessons and acts of Collective Worship. No explanation need be given. The school is obliged to accede to your direction.

We took the decision to withdraw our child from Collective Worship and RE because we consider religious practice to be a private matter for the home and place of worship; we do not consider school to be an appropriate venue. Furthermore, many parents do not wish to inculcate their children with religious belief, being happy to let their child reach its own conclusions in its own way.

We also disagree with the way RE is taught, especially the tendency to ‘teach’ religion as fact. We are unhappy that children are discouraged if not forbidden from expressing views in RE lessons other than those from a believer’s perspective. Children are generally not allowed to challenge the claims of religion, nor to offer alternative explanations of events in the universe.

With the exception of RE and Collective Worship, school activities aim to exercise a child’s intellectual capacity and encourage them to think independently. In our opinion, RE and Collective Worship are tantamount to indoctrination and therefore not in the child’s interests.

We invite you also to write to the school to withdraw your child from RE and Collective Worship. If sufficient parents withdraw their children from RE and acts of collective worship, we will be in a better position to press for children to be given, while they are withdrawn, additional teaching on academic subjects that will enhance their general education and career prospects. Even if it is not possible to secure additional teaching time, pupils will be able to devote the time during which they are withdrawn to private study on such subjects.

If you wish to withdraw your child from RE, whether for the above reasons or ones of your own, we would encourage you to write to the school immediately. A copy of the letter we sent to the Head is reproduced [overleaf/below]. When writing your own letter, you are welcome to use the same text, or adapt it.

We should emphasise that are not seeking to remove any reference at school to religion; it has played an important part in the world’s culture and has a place in such subjects as history and art. We would also be happy for our child to learn something about comparative religions, provided none were taught as being superior to the others, and non-religious perspectives were also covered on an equal basis. We, perhaps like yourselves, hope that eventually RE will be removed from the school timetable leaving children to pursue their education without being held back by this unnecessary and far from harmless subject.

Yours faithfully

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Specimen letter to head teacher

(But we urge that such a letter is a last resort; if possible the issue should be dealt with by negotiation and mutual consent.)

Dear Head Teacher

As the parents of XXXXXX, we are writing formally to give notice that we are requesting [his/her] being withdrawn from RE lessons and acts of Collective Worship at your school with immediate effect in accordance with Section 71 of the Education Act 1996.

You are doubtless aware that the right to withdraw children from RE lessons and religious worship in schools is unconditional and can even be exercised in schools that are religious in nature.

I am confident that I can count on you to take all necessary action to ensure that this formal request is complied with, but emphasise that I wish my child to continue to attend assembly except for the Collective Worship element. I am sure I can count on you to ensure that this request will not result in XXXX being treated by staff in any disadvantageous way. I only mention this as is not unknown for such requests to be met with the child being excluded from the whole of assembly or, while withdrawn from RE, to be allocated some menial task. Clearly, such victimisation would be completely unacceptable.

[i would however be grateful were the school to make arrangements for alternative lessons to be given to my child during the time when they would have been attending RE lessons and, if their length warrants it, acts of Collective Worship. If alternative lessons are not provided, we ask that our child be given the opportunity for private study during the time withdrawn. ]

As you know, there is no requirement for us to give any explanation for our decision, nor do we wish to do so. The decision we have made is final and we are not prepared to enter into any further negotiations on the matter, save, perhaps, over the practical details of implementation. If you wish to raise any questions of this nature, we would prefer them to be made in writing.

Yours faithfully

(The above passage in parentheses may be omitted as being over-ambitious as, in practice, it is likely that the child will be asked to sit in with another class.)

Education Act 1996

Section71.

(1) If the parent of a pupil at a community, foundation or voluntary school requests that he may be wholly or partly excused -

(a) from receiving religious education given in the school in accordance with the school’s basic curriculum,

(:lol: from attendance at religious worship in the school, or

© both from receiving such education and from such attendance, the pupil shall be so excused until the request is withdrawn.

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