It's worrying, I also teach and in assembly and if anyone is ill or there's some family trauma, the only solution/ advice given is - "All we can do is pray". It totally disempowers children. They are well aware of my views but it is still met with shock by learners and staff. We are getting somewhere in that they at least agree now that just because something gives people hope and makes them feel better (the usual justification) -it doesn't make it true. Evolution is next term, I wait with both eagerness and dread in equal amounts!!