I've started researching schools for my DS next September & am really at the high number of faith schools and wondering where that leaves us as non-practising christians .
Now I'm more that happy for my son to attend a CofE school - we were both raised & christened Cofe but ironically our already rather sparodic church attendance ground to a halt soon after our DS arrived as we could never face church & baby (or a 10am sunday service ) but it seems if we want to apply for a place at a CoE school we will need a 'reference' from a minister confirming regular & on-going Church attendance. So what do we do - start going to church to get a reference? And what's the definition of regular and on-going? And if we don't bother with church attendance & therefore can't complete one of their supplementary forms, does that mean we can't apply to their school & will be allocated a non-faith school potentially miles away?
To give you an idea of the problem - there are 20 primary schools to cover the town & surrounding villages: 7 are either catholic or diabolical & 10 of the remaining 13 are CofE. Our village & the 2 next village schools are CofE & the nearest non-faith school has an amazing reputation & an intake of only 15 so I gather our chances of entry are slim to none.
Any thoughts/ideas on how best to proceed?
TIA
LCN
PS I am aware this is a potentially dangerous thread but hope I can get some sensible answers without causing an massive bunfight
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lechatnoir · 02/05/2009 23:46
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