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Helen
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[Poll] Religions in School
May 3, 2004 - 04:32 AM
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Many people are discriminated by their religions. In school, there's peer pressure to be just like others. You want to be popular, cool, and most of all, NORMAL. Is there really such a thing as normal? It's just something created by the human imagination. People may say that to be normal, you should be just like everyone else, but everyone that is "normal" should be original and that is "cool", right? Having to do Religious things in school have many down sides. People may believe that you are not "normal", you seem different, you may even be bullied by doing things that others don't do. Everyone is an individual, and people have different religions and practices. If Christmas could be practiced and be days off, why can't some other religious holidays?  What is the difference between Christmas and some other holidays? Easter and other Christian religion holidays have days off from school, so why can't holidays from other religions? The answer could be simple, because other religions are not accepted in North America. Canada is suppose to be a free country, so why is there still discrimination to people of different religions? Think about the questions asked here, and reply if you want. 
About how many religions are seen or heard of that are practiced in your school?
<2
(6 votes for 30%)
3-5
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6-8
(5 votes for 25%)
9-11
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>12
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Re: Religions in School
May 4, 2004 - 04:47 AM
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What you said was very true. In school, all the holidays that we wait for our all christian holidays. Being a christian myself, I think that we should have other religious holidays because it's not fair for others and that the Christian religion isn't the holiday that we practice. There is eid and some students takes days off because of it. We either get days off from all the relgions or get some days off or not get any at all.
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Kelly Z.
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Re: Religions in School
May 4, 2004 - 08:53 AM
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When you are in a country like Canada, you expect it to be multicultural and "absolute" equal between different race and cultures. This is impossible especially when their are issues like racism and the minority dicrimination.
How do we define "normal": most people would say to be like everyone else. What if everyone else is of another race/culture/religion? Then if you keep on being yourself, you would be considered "uncool". So to prevent from being "uncool", many people stopped practising their religions and tried to change their culture in order to "adapt".
To get to the bottom, the problem is still majority vs. minority.
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Re: Religions in School
May 5, 2004 - 03:49 AM
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That is really true about what Wolf said. Many people are sort of embarrassed about their religion especially in school. You could be the next victim that people bully.
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Re: Religions in School
May 5, 2004 - 06:59 AM
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People don't understand different religions. That is why they think it is "uncool" ( WhiteFang said). They then start excluding students if they are not like the group. This can be a problem. If people start forgetting their own culture, then Canada won't be multicultural anymore.
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Re: Religions in School
May 6, 2004 - 10:44 AM
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I strongly agree with what you said about being normal and why there is only holidays for christian holidays. Poeple are treated differently so fast just because of their religon and what they do to suppeort their religon. I think that everryone should be treated equally in everyway even if their in a different reliogn.
Also why is it that other religons can't have a day off when they celebrate their occasions. Canada is multicultureal and everyon shuld have an equal chance. This is a good point that you brought up.
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Re: Religions in School
June 2, 2004 - 04:17 AM
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Everyone should be treated equally, religion is what human beings believe in. I think that everyone has a right to choose what to believe in. Inequity and discrimination shouldn't occur at all. Most of the time peer pressure has alot of influence on people and what they believe.
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June 3, 2004 - 08:32 AM
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i totally agree with all of you that people are treated so differently , i think every one should be treated equally.
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Re: Religions in School
June 3, 2004 - 09:04 AM
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I have to agree that school holidays always seem to appear on Christan holidays, even though I celebrate Christmas and Easter for the presents and the chocolate. School holidays appear on Thanksgiving, X-mas, New-Years Day, March Break, Victoria Day, and a few others.
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Re: Religions in School
June 4, 2004 - 10:59 AM
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suijin you are right! all school holidays except the 1st may holidays and winter holidays in feb. are "christian"! i can understand it for my country which has been christian for more than 1100 years! before that they were slavic! and now since our independence a huge number of others have moved here but even tho there are still 91% of christians here! And what i hate the most is that christians here fear others! maybe cos during ww2 muslim bosnians which had and somehow still have a reputation of a very agressive population, brought to slovenia to fight against italians and germans! and ppl still fear them! but i think that the country doesn't do enough to help these more than 350 registrated religions and sects in my country! now there's a new subject in prime schools here which is called "religions and ethics" which will teach the kids about other religions. and what i'm very happy that catholic lessons won't be registrates as a school subject!
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Other Holiday
September 16, 2004 - 07:34 AM
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Originally posted by b-krazy
What you said was very true. In school, all the holidays that we wait for our all christian holidays. Being a christian myself, I think that we should have other religious holidays because it's not fair for others and that the Christian religion isn't the holiday that we practice. There is eid and some students takes days off because of it. We either get days off from all the relgions or get some days off or not get any at all.
Apart from religious holiday there is some holiday that doesn't whort of holiday and apart from that we have other religion holiday from Christian holidays in Nigeria.
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Jackie Elston
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Re: Religions in School
September 17, 2004 - 05:31 AM
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I agree with you helenfu that religion should be kept out of schools. It's stupid that the only days you get off from school are Christian holidays. But at least now they call it "winter break" and "spring break", instead of "Christmas" and "Easter" break.
I know this doesn't have anything to do with religion in school, but many of the Christian holidays were actually stolen from pagans a couple thousand years ago. For instance, Halloween, which pagans call Samhain, was a day they would feast in honor of the dead, to celebrate the harvest, and in recognition of the change of the seasons. Easter aka Ostara was a celebration of life and rebirth.
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Re: Religions in School
October 10, 2004 - 12:08 PM
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I don't know how it works in every school but in the ones i went to we did use Christian holidays as the major breaks in the year - but people of other relions were automaticaly given time of for their major festivals if they wanted it.
Easter isn't a totally 'stolen' date as you put it - the name might be - but the date is always the same time as passover in the jewish calander.
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Re: Religions in School
October 11, 2004 - 03:25 AM
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Fantastic - you could have so many days off!!!
But i think the education system would just set a whole lot more homework to be done over each of these holidays.
How would Futurism cope under this type of calander - with that 8 hours a day (i think thats right) of work you're required to do?
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Re: Religions in School
October 11, 2004 - 03:40 AM
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Originally posted by Lone-Wolf
I don't know how it works in every school but in the ones i went to we did use Christian holidays as the major breaks in the year - but people of other relions were automaticaly given time of for their major festivals if they wanted it.
Easter isn't a totally 'stolen' date as you put it - the name might be - but the date is always the same time as passover in the jewish calander.
LOL - this reminds me of an old Rome:
Back then out of 365 days, there were around 160 days of celebrations (holidays). Imagine schooling under such conditions.
Ave Futuria
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