I have always wanted to send my children to a pagan school, but at the moment there's only one that I know of in the UK and it is too far, so:
Do you think a more modern lesson in Religious Education would benefit those who wish to know more about the religion to dispel the 'rumours' and / or know more about the practises as a religion?
Also I remember whan I was back in school and the only information on Witches and witchcraft was in the history lessons on the burning times.
Now that religious education in our schools is meant to cover the many religions practised in this country and not just Christianity i find the exclusion of paganism quite galling. I am not a pagan myself but i have many friends who are, and they don't all follow the same form either as some tend towards Wicca while others are Asatru. But the impression of these differing religions that is given is that they are somehow whacky, with no consistent theology and of little historical standing. That they are in fact modern inventions. Well all religions were a modern invention at some point, so i don't know what that has to do with it, even if it were true. They also get it mixed up with Satanism, which is something else entirely. There is a quite high number of people who practise paganism in this country and so it should be taught. After all my children have studied Zoastrianism and there certainly aren't that many of them in Britain, there are probably more pagans.
