Busyknitter

I’m generally very happy with the school that our teenage son goes to. He’s happy, has a decent circle of friends, doesn’t get into serious trouble and seems to be actually learning a thing or two in most subjects. But tonight he came home with a story that just goes to show that the world will never be completely rid of terrible teachers.

His opening line was a cheery “I got a lunchtime detention in RE today, Mum. Do you want to hear how it happened?”

Me Uh-oh Did you not do your homework?

Firstborn No, nothing like that. We were discussing baptism, I asked a question and she gave me a detention for being blasphemous

Me So what was the question?

Firstborn Well I asked why people don’t wait till they are very old to get baptised, then they can be cleansed of all their sins and won’t have much time left to get into trouble again

Me Then what happened?

Firstborn She just gave me a stern look, said “I will not have blasphemy in my class” and told me to report for detention later.

So now lively kids get into trouble for asking intelligent questions (he swears blind he wasn’t cheeking her). He didn’t seem that bothered about it at all; a school boy acceptance of inevitable rough justice if you will; so, whatever. But GOOD GRIEF! Does the stupid woman not know deferring baptism was the norm in the early church till about AD400? The Emporer Constantine himself was baptised on his deathbed.

I offered to make him some “FREE the RE 1″ posters and report the case to Amnesty International. At which point he got cross with me for being silly.