my mother was a sunday school teacher.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A Sunday school (also sometimes referred to as a Sabbath school) is a Christian educational institution, usually (but not always) catering to children and other young people. Many Seventh-day Adventists, Seventh Day Baptists, and other sabbatarian communities hold their Sabbath Schools on Saturdays. Sunday schools in England were first set up in the 1780s to provide education to working children. William King (see memorial in Dursley Tabernacle Church) first started a Sunday School in Dursley, Gloucestershire, and suggested to his friend Robert Raikes, that he start a similar school in Gloucester, resulting in Raikes being generally quoted as starting the schools as he was editor of the Gloucester Journal and wrote an article in his Journal resulting in many clergymen supporting it. It aimed to teach the youngsters reading, writing and cyphering (doing arithmetic) and a knowledge of the Bible. By 1785, 250,000 English children were attending Sunday School. There were 5,000 in Manchester alone. By 1895, the 'Society for the Establishment and Promotion of Sunday Schools' had distributed 91,915 spelling books, 24,232 Testaments and 5,360 Bibles. The Sunday School movement was cross-denominational, and through subscription built large buildings that could host public lectures as well as classrooms.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Sunday school has been around for a long time. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, i've never been in one but heard it can help pupils that are a little behind."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "its more about Christian educations, usually for children"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you think it's a value added activity on a sunday?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It can if it provides actual education and a quality learning environment for Christian theory"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is the drawback of going to Sunday school?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They were first started to provide real education for working children in England which is a good thing but now the sole focus is on Christian belief, which i find might be limiting or a drawback"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I can see that being limiting. I don't think nowadays kids have any other way of learning about Cristian faith in such a detail than Sunday school. "}]