mackem35
Winger
So why don't the Humanists build their own schools, rather than ending faith schools ? This is what the Catholic Church and guessing the Church of England did from the 1850s onwards and the same with the voluntary aided Muslim schools more recently. It was only in 1944 with the introduction of the Education Act that they became voluntary aided; all of those schools being brought under government control (and state ownership) with the understanding their religious ethos was allowed to be taught. Faith Schools accept kids of all religions and none and while the ethos is obviously to promote Christian / Muslim etc values nobody is forced to send their children to them. Often the voluntary aided schools are the best performers (fact) and I think there is a touch of resentfulness from parents who are not of that religion that they want the best school but on their terms. I know there are Muslim children and children of no faith that attend St. Anthonys but it looks like the Humanists would have it closed down as it does not confirm to their values. Why end private schools too ? Is this a case of I can't afford to send my kids to one so close them all. I can't afford a multi million pound mansion but I would not stop them being built or having them razed to the ground to build social housing. Why don't we just have duplicate identikit schools with cloned teachers and don't ever talk about religion or history with religious overtones, the jews in Nazi Germany, won't teach that, Sikhs don't exist, Buddhists them too but we can't talk about LGBT and Richard Dawkins all day long.
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