Intro
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Even kids need weekends. But just like adults sometimes have to work on Saturday, many children go to Sunday school. Instead of extra pay or respect from their boss, they learn about religion. These lessons may help form who they are. But are they the lessons the Sunday school teachers hope to teach?
Sunday school is when Christian or Catholic children go to special religious classes. Other religions have classes like this too. They don’t always take place on Sunday.
Some kids like Sunday school, but others would rather not go. While some of the lessons may sink in anyway, sometimes kids grow to resent Sunday school and rebel against their religion. Find out what effect Sunday school had on Lily and Mason in this religion English lesson.
Dialog
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Mason: I was just talking with my parents and they brought up this one time that I refused to go to Sunday school.
Lily: Oh, I always refused to go to Sunday school.
Mason: Yeah? Now, I was raised Jewish. Were you raised Christian?
Lily: Catholic.
Mason: Catholic…but I find it weird though that every religion basically has Sunday school, or some equivalent thereof. For me, I went for a couple of years and then one day I woke up and I’m like, “I’m not going anymore.” It wasn’t any sort of religious protest, I just didn’t find it fun or useful in any way.
Lily: I think there’s also a difference between going to Sunday school every Sunday versus going to Catholic school where your entire education hinges on a particular religion. But Sunday school in general was always, for me, just a way to socialize with people and talk to different people, instead of necessarily absorbing all of the information that they were giving us.
Mason: Sure. At least…I’m OK with it happening there rather than in public schools. If there needs to be a school for religion, let it be on Sunday.
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Discussion
Mason was talking with his parents recently and they brought up the time he decided he wasn’t going to go to Sunday school anymore. He wasn’t trying to rebel against his religion, he just didn’t like the classes and didn’t feel the information was sinking in.
Lily often refused to go to Sunday school. She and Mason agree that it’s interesting that so many different religions have a version of Sunday school. Mason is glad Sunday school exists because it keeps people from trying to have religious classes in public schools.
Did you ever go to Sunday school? What kind of classes are offered for kids in your religion?
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