As an avowed atheist myself, I completely agree with this writers view that atheism should be taught alongside the major religions. I have to teach this, myself, at home. I'm up against the whole school! My kid's primary is just an ordinary primary. Yet they sing hymns, say prayers. All teachers AFAIK are Christians and let this pervade most everything inside the school.

My kids ask, "do you believe in God?"

"Which one?" I ask.

"The one everybody believes in."

"You mean the one they teach you at school, the Christian god... No, I don't believe in gods, ghosts, spells, witches, magic, devils nor anything that can't be proved."

I then go on about all the different gods, the Egyptian's sun gods, the Greek's gods, the gods that reincarnate you as slugs if you're not nice and cows if you are nice...

Believing in gods is silly. And a waste of time and effort. The same as believing in ghosts and bogeymen.

"The new podcast is out: Radio Sandaig. A Halloween special, with a mix of our regular features and Halloween fun."

Another from 'the Scottish school blog.' Somebody, yesterday mentioned a radio station for their school. I thought I'd seen one in New York, as it is, it's much closer to home. Simple to do, at least all the support for podcasting is in-built here, just the mechanics of making a good sound file, is time consuming. Unless, you just don't care about the production values, and just go ahead and record something, anything.

Sandaig does a podcast once a month, and has been doing so since 2004.