Rev Steven Terry, Chair of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education – an organisation that campaigns against religious discrimination in schools says that worship assemblies exclude others.
Speaking to Premier, Rev Steve said the law needs to be reconsidered: “quite simply, it’s out of date with the situation that we have in modern society. The original legislation, of course, dates right back to the Butler act of 1944, which means its 75 years old.
He argues: “the world has changed greatly in the last 75 years. And anything that happens in school needs to take account of the society that we’re currently operating in.”
Most Britons agree, according to a new survey that suggests the majority of people consider compulsory school worship as “inappropriate”.
A YouGov poll by Humanists UK found 50 per cent of people opposed the current legal obligation of a daily act of Christian worship.
The study also found that 72 percent of those surveyed want things like the environment and pupils’ achievements to be talked about in assemblies instead.
Rev Steven says that the current law is unfair and not reflective of the diverse worldviews of modern Britain: “We live in an extremely diverse society, where all sorts of different views, both religious and non-religious, have been very much talked about and lived. And we feel that it is unfair, that any one particular religious…
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