Ok, so I am currently in my 4th year at highschool, almost 5th (scottish education = 7 years in primary, 6 years in secondary) and my school is supposedly "non-religious." It's not like the school is supposed to be athiest or anything, just that religion is only every supposed to be brought up whilest studying it in R.M.P.S classes, and should certainly not expect their students to practice the religion in school (hyms, prayer etc)

So why the hell are the "non-religious" schools I've gone to (2 primary schools + 1 secondary) so religious?

So, the first primary I went to wasn't so bad. It was in Germany, and we only ever done like one prayer (Christian) after assemblies. 'Though I was 6 so I don't remember it too much.

However, the other school I went to, all the time we had to sing hyms, pray, we even had to go to church ceremonies every few weeks when we were supposed to be a non-religious school. We also got regular visits from priests . There was a church built just down the road from this school when I was in P4 so obviously the two struck up a deal.

My current school isn't so bad, but considering that there's a christian highschool literally just down the road from us, shouldn't they be focused on teaching during assemblies and not religion? If we wanted to be taught christianity (when the school talks of religion it's all pretty much christian) we could just go there, it's a public school.

We don't need to sing or pray, but most of the people they get in to talk to us are christian. When my yeargroup (there's around 200 people in each yeargroup) first came up we were given bibles. Most of them were found dirty and wet, with their pages torn out, scattered around outside.

Recently, someone from a spring/summer study camp came to visit my yeargroup since we have exams coming up soon. It actually looked pretty good, aside from studying there was absailing, volleyball, canoeing etc. I was thinking about it until at the end, he finally got around to mentioning that it's a christian camp, and they talk of god and bibles and do frickin' renactments of the bible. Ok.

So this really pissed me and a lot of my friends off, considering most of us are athiest and the school is not supposed to preach to us. Another factor was that all three of the schools i've been to, although supposedly non-religious (sorry I don't actually know the correct term), have only talked of christianity. I have friends who are Muslim, Wiccan and so forth and if the school is going to talk of religion, shouldn't it be of all religions?

So, what was/is your school like when it came/comes to religion, and do you think that this is acceptable?

I want your views!