Expelling Jesus? The Schools Bill and Christ in schools

Jul 1, 2022 by

from Christian Concern:

Steve Beegoo, Christian Concern’s Head of Education comments on the potential impact of the Schools Bill.

Could Jesus finally be expelled from schools in the UK? The Schools Bill has many concerning elements as we have raised in recent articles on Ofsted powers and Home Education. The removal of Jesus Christ from any place within schools is now a further danger.

Religious Education

When schools in the UK began, they were all Christian; churches began the schools. The 1944 Act allowed the state to take control and to fund staffing and buildings, but there has continued to be a requirement for Christian worship and Christian teaching in all schools since that time.

As Christianity, and the commitment of churches to children in school has waned, so has the quality and delivery of a Christian witness in our state schools. But the requirement to have a majority of the Religious Education teaching to be Christian, and for there to be daily acts of Christian worship, has remained, for schools to be called up to.

Many still do make much effort to speak of Jesus Christ in state schools, and these laws help them to do so. All schools are still required by law to have a daily act of collective worship which is Christian. The Schools Bill promotes changes to the laws and the local structures which embed Religious Education in the timetables of our schools. Will teaching and worship of Christ cease in our schools? Will Jesus finally be expelled?

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