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there have been two very good jobs advertised, and i haven't gone for either.

why? because both are church schools, of different persuasions, and a 'sympathy with the school's religious ethos' is required.

I can't bring myself to apply. just can't. but i will need a job..

i have enough trouble with myself when i lead the kids in saying grace. deciding not to participate in a religion is bad enough, but i feel like i'm being disrespectful when i join in. i can't not really, not in my training school, and that's a church school too. (you don't get much choice where you go, but fortunately the religious side is not overemphasised. )
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I sympathise Em. I work in a C of E school...but unlike you I have no conscience. As I don't believe I'll be struck down by a thunderbolt.

There are a few of things I don't believe in personally, that I have to teach or teach about. I totally disagree in primary schoolkids having homework - buit I have to give it to them. I absolutely disagree in SATS but have to comply.

However, church schools are usually the best places to work, the kids are usually good and the support given by parents is usually good (mine being the exception to the rule)

My advice is find the best school no matter what it's particular persuasion.
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yeah, i know.. i don't have trouble with teaching about religion, its teaching religion that i have a problem with.

I'm gonna have to stick to my principles on this one. if they specify it on the job ad, they're gonna ask about in the interview, most likely. and i can't lie about that one. (other things, of course)
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You're probably best waiting for a job that's right for you - there's plenty of good schools that aren't attached to a church or a particular 'leaning'

The school down the road that we 'collaborate' with had 196 applicants!!!!! I've got my eye on a KeyStage Two job that's coming up there, next year ;)

I'll stay here until Christmas, so that I've done two full years, then I'm away - it's doing my nut in - has been doing since the first week.

Good luck jobseeking.
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Take the money and run, babe... ;D
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personally, Jo I'd go and work for a fascist dictatorship just to get out of my current situ. I've had any ideals and good intentions battered out of me.

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Yeh, try and block out the feelings and take the money. See yourself as taking them for a ride.
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I can't. it would kill me. there are some things i will NOT do.
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try getting older and more pummelled, then talk to me
no offence Jo, its just my personal experience
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i've been pummelled, honey, and i've taken the devil's pay before now. and I will not do it again.
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more power to ye!
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emilystrange wrote:I can't. it would kill me. there are some things i will NOT do.
i can totally agree with you on this point...and i can only think of one solution...

teach in Scotland...there is no C of E there!...and the school system is much better than the english one :innocent:
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Burn wrote:i can totally agree with you on this point...and i can only think of one solution...

teach in Scotland...there is no C of E there!...
No, just good ole' Bishop Devine :evil:
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Andrew S wrote:
Burn wrote:i can totally agree with you on this point...and i can only think of one solution...

teach in Scotland...there is no C of E there!...
No, just good ole' Bishop Devine :evil:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotlan ... =302752005
WTF?...typical freeking Scotish religious nutters... :innocent:
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Although I agree with Blast's attitude of compromising on their terms, it's considerably different compromising on your own ethics and choices.

I couldn't do it either, Strange. I don't blame you - keep looking though.
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emilystrange wrote:deciding not to participate in a religion is bad enough, but i feel like i'm being disrespectful when i join in.
Not just me then. Wouldn't marry in church or get Luke christened. Pam was a bit miffed.
And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there.
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Good on yer ems. Have the courage of your (lack of) convictions.

I struggle at any kind of religious service; I'll stand up and sit down at the appropriate cues, but I won't sing or "pray". I'd feel too much of a hypocrite.

And :notworthy: at Francis too.

At least Kerry isn't religious either. We didn't get married in church, but then again we didn't get married anywhere ;)
And with us not having kids, the problem of christenings hasn't arisen. (Although I would imagine my mum would be very miffed. She's a real Christianity enthusiast.)
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i had to go to first communion on sunday.. it was a family thing with free food..
the mass is so firmly engraved upon my memory that i do things automatically, even after all this time! thats catholic guilt for you. do something right in church, and you STILL feel guilty.
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Catholics..they only love you when your dead! I went to my first Catholic funeral a couple of months ago and it was beautiful ( in a 'im not religious type of way)

Pity you're made to feel so guilty and damned whilst your alive though.
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the weddings are beautiful too, but i'm a sucker for a good one.
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My first job after I qualified was a private hosptail run by monks. If I can get past that crap then I'm sure you can. My attitude to it was those people still needed looking after. Same as your situation really, those kids still need teaching. You've got to ask yourself this...You wanna go for a city school, where ok, no religion is involved, but I'm sure it would be a horrible place to work. Or a nice little religious school, where, ok. there are certain aspects of it that you don't agree with, but I can't imagine that everything you'll be required to teach you'd agree with. I could be wrong here, but wouldn't they be better schools in themselves? Better support, better behaved children etc?

It's not like the army is it? You don't have to sign up for a number of years, IMHO, it would be a good start for you, somewhere nice and quiet to get your foot on the ladder.

I also thing if you weren't slightly tempted, you wouldn't have posted this.

Get thinking about it seriously girl!!
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The christenings are pure hell. I had to attend my god son's. Having DJed until the about 5:00 am the night before I wasn't really up for a 9:00 am service. As the godfather I had to go up to the alter, cast out Satan and other stuff. :roll:

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markfiend wrote:At least Kerry isn't religious either. We didn't get married in church, but then again we didn't get married anywhere ;)
And with us not having kids, the problem of christenings hasn't arisen. (Although I would imagine my mum would be very miffed. She's a real Christianity enthusiast.)
Pam's not exactly a churchgoer, though she does talk to the Jehovah's Witnesses when they call. But that's because she's far too nice to slam the door in their face like most of us. She wanted Luke christened more as a traditional rite-of-passage than anything spiritual. As for my Mother. Well, that's a whole different can of worms.
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Francis wrote:She wanted Luke christened more as a traditional rite-of-passage than anything spiritual.
I guess that's fair enough.

My objection would be that I'd be a hypocrite to stand up there and promise to bring up a child in a religion that I disagree with quite fundamentally.
Francis wrote:As for my Mother. Well, that's a whole different can of worms.
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Mrs RicheyJames wrote:My first job after I qualified was a private hosptail run by monks. If I can get past that crap then I'm sure you can. My attitude to it was those people still needed looking after. Same as your situation really, those kids still need teaching. You've got to ask yourself this...You wanna go for a city school, where ok, no religion is involved, but I'm sure it would be a horrible place to work. Or a nice little religious school, where, ok. there are certain aspects of it that you don't agree with, but I can't imagine that everything you'll be required to teach you'd agree with. I could be wrong here, but wouldn't they be better schools in themselves? Better support, better behaved children etc?

It's not like the army is it? You don't have to sign up for a number of years, IMHO, it would be a good start for you, somewhere nice and quiet to get your foot on the ladder.

I also thing if you weren't slightly tempted, you wouldn't have posted this.

Get thinking about it seriously girl!!

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