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[tinyjo]

Have I just got on a list or something? Am I suddenly listed on some directory or past a certain technorati threshold? Free mobile phones for a month, yes, that we like but today I got an email from a website called Family Security Matters linking me to an article about how multiculturalism is destroying Britain saying my readers might be interested in it.

I only read the synopsis and the info I could find out from Google about these people but I think I can pretty safely say that the only interest my readers would have in this is to mock it. This is, apparently, a site which called on Bush to become president for life. Personally, I like multicultural Britain. I can get a wide variety of food, ingredients, music and opinion and so on partially due to it. I am mystified by the people who seem to feel that unless everyone is taking part in their traditions they are suddenly under threat somehow (c.f. nativity plays, etc). I'm just not buying it. Frankly, I suspect that the reason quite few schools give up on nativities is that teachers get bored with them after a while and want a change - thats certainly what my unscientific survey of teachers I know suggests.

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Umm, surely doing the same bloody thing over and over again every single year is kind of the point of teaching? Sad but true.
That said, there are loads of ways to ring the changes with a nativity play and as I recall the Shock Horror "no schools are doing nativity plays because they are scared of Muslims" headlines were mostly because the schools were doing very slightly different nativity plays with scripts not identical to the one in A Charlie Brown Christmas (or whatever it's called). Small's very Christian school is doing an off the peg production with lots of actions for the choir and songs about camels and stable animals. Last year she was a pig, which I'm pretty sure is not canonical.