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[quote=Anonymous]The main issue is that this is a secular daycare without any mention of this in their information.  Not okay.  I agree with the PP who said you should find out if this is isolated with a particular room or teacher or part of the overall curriculum for the school.

My kids went to three different preschools.  One of them was secular but had a general "blessing" before meals -- it was a simple song thanking the earth for giving us food.  The second had no blessing of any kind.  The third was Jewish and had a Jewish prayer (we are not Jewish, and the preschool did only minimal Jewish education -- celebrating holidays and some basic traditions but nothing in the classes about belief systems, etc.).

I personally like the idea of having a moment of "thanks" before a meal, and I think it helps signal to young kids when it's time to begin so that they wait for their friends and the teachers to give the "okay."  But if it's not overtly a religious school, then the ritual should not be at all religious in nature.  There are lots of opportunities for sayings or poems or songs that do not include religious overtones, even if the general concept of a blessing before a meal is Christian or Jewish in nature.[/quote]

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