Our father, or whatever you call him

The Sunday Telegraph published the result of a survey of non-faith schools.

Among the results was the revelation a large number of schools are breaking the law by failing to offer a daily act of collective worship of a broadly Christian character, and thousands of children were no longer exposed to the Lord's Prayer, possibly the best known passage in the English language.

There is no surprise at the reason, -"there are members of other faiths in the school and we do not wish to upset them." There is some element of political correctness here. They have not learned of the fatal consequences of the imposition of multiculturalism. If the parents of children of other faiths object, let them be excused. That always happened when I was at school - a few Jews "did their own thing" elsewhere, but some Jewish students sat through our nominal Christian assembly.

A young child to whom I spoke a few years ago, knew all about Hindu, Jewish and Muslim festivals - had joined in them at school. When I asked about Christian festivals, there was uncertainty - Easter and Christmas both fall in the school holidays, and the nativity play had been replaced by some concoction which had little or nothing to do with religion.