Faith school discriminate against non-faith intake?
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
anonymous said:
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Yes. Schools have a acceptance priority list, and most faith schools rank children of parents of the wrong faith ahead of the children of atheists. Faith and access to education should be two separate things.
Faith schools get there money in part from the religious groups they are affiliated to. Also when selecting second tier intake children with any faith would probably find the environment better than children with no faith. In this case I would say discrimination might not actually be negative.
I don't believe that there is a big invisible man who lives in the sky and that it's normal to go to a special building at least once a week to listen to someone dressed up in a costume, talking to that invisible man, and even encouraging the audience of this show to sing to the invisible man and give him money.
For this disbelief I'm called an atheist.
I don't believe that Elvis is still alive or that aliens built the pyramids, but in those cases I don't get a special title for my disbelief.
But I once used to believe in an invisible man, until one day my Mum broke my little heart by telling me that Santa Clause wasn't real. When I finally accepted this as fact, she gave me a title which I cherish to this day. She called me a grown up.
For this disbelief I'm called an atheist.
I don't believe that Elvis is still alive or that aliens built the pyramids, but in those cases I don't get a special title for my disbelief.
But I once used to believe in an invisible man, until one day my Mum broke my little heart by telling me that Santa Clause wasn't real. When I finally accepted this as fact, she gave me a title which I cherish to this day. She called me a grown up.
I’ve got a feeling that faith schools have an exemption from the Equality Act that allows them to legally discriminate based on religion. Or non-religion, of course. It’ll be down to the individual school’s admissions policy as to how obvious it is, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they tend to go ..
1. our faith
2. any other faith
3. no faith
1. our faith
2. any other faith
3. no faith
talksthetorque said:
People lie about their addresses ( lives with Grandma etc) to get their kids in the right school.
They can't exactly check with God/Jehovah/Allah/Buddha/vishnu if a child is religeous or atheist.
And the bonus about lieing when you're an atheist is that you won't go to hell!
They check with local churches.They can't exactly check with God/Jehovah/Allah/Buddha/vishnu if a child is religeous or atheist.
And the bonus about lieing when you're an atheist is that you won't go to hell!
gregs656 said:
talksthetorque said:
People lie about their addresses ( lives with Grandma etc) to get their kids in the right school.
They can't exactly check with God/Jehovah/Allah/Buddha/vishnu if a child is religeous or atheist.
And the bonus about lieing when you're an atheist is that you won't go to hell!
They check with local churches.They can't exactly check with God/Jehovah/Allah/Buddha/vishnu if a child is religeous or atheist.
And the bonus about lieing when you're an atheist is that you won't go to hell!
Glosphil said:
People talk about young children being Muslim, Catholic, CofE, etc. They are not; they are children of Muslim, Catholic, CofE, etc. parents. Not the same thing.
Agreed. At what age does a child make a choice about their religion? A age 5 my kids had no concept of religion let alone making a choice.NMNeil said:
I don't believe that there is a big invisible man who lives in the sky and that it's normal to go to a special building at least once a week to listen to someone dressed up in a costume, talking to that invisible man, and even encouraging the audience of this show to sing to the invisible man and give him money.
For this disbelief I'm called an atheist.
I don't believe that Elvis is still alive or that aliens built the pyramids, but in those cases I don't get a special title for my disbelief.
But I once used to believe in an invisible man, until one day my Mum broke my little heart by telling me that Santa Clause wasn't real. When I finally accepted this as fact, she gave me a title which I cherish to this day. She called me a grown up.
Why would you want to send your child to a faith based school then? Good education or not.For this disbelief I'm called an atheist.
I don't believe that Elvis is still alive or that aliens built the pyramids, but in those cases I don't get a special title for my disbelief.
But I once used to believe in an invisible man, until one day my Mum broke my little heart by telling me that Santa Clause wasn't real. When I finally accepted this as fact, she gave me a title which I cherish to this day. She called me a grown up.
NMNeil said:
s1962a said:
Why would you want to send your child to a faith based school then? Good education or not.
I have no children, but if I did I would want them to be educated with facts, not brainwashed into believing in myths.
Obviously a faith based school will have an element of faith teaching as well as the core subjects.
s1962a said:
Obviously a faith based school will have an element of faith teaching as well as the core subjects.
All schools have an element of faith teaching - it's part of the national circulum. We looked into this closely as of our two nearest primary schools, one was CofE and one was non-faith and if anything the faith school had less compulsory religious teaching than the non-faith one; probably because faith schools have been burned in the past for pushing too far the other way. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff