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Faith Schools

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AngelEyes46 · 02/03/2012 20:35

On looking through previous threads, there seems to be a lot of controversy about faith schools, practicing the catholic faith, using the system to get into a over subscribed school. What are people's thoughts?

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AngelEyes46 · 02/03/2012 21:18

Moscow - is what you mean that Catholics have better choice? You're kind of born into being a catholic in that you want to be a part of the church community and as such you want your children to go to a catholic school.

TalkingPeace - are you also against academies (where they can vary the curriculum, use their own pay scale and to an extent vary their admission policy?)

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JustGettingByMum · 02/03/2012 21:16

To put the other side of the argument though, we moved 20 miles from a "naice" middle class area, to a much more mixed area, and moved our dc from an outstanding catholic primary into a failing catholic primary in order to keep them in the catholic system at secondary school.

moscow · 02/03/2012 21:09

Posted this on other thread.....
Got to stick my oar in about the faith schools. Where we live, there are two fantastic and hugely oversubscribed co-eds in the north and east of the town, an average mixed RC in the east, two good single sex comps fairly central and by lottery, a very good girls' catholic, a fairly ropey church school in the far northwest, a seriously failing co-ed covering a large area in the south, and one other co-ed, sort of average, in southwest. What this means is that you can draw a line down the middle of the town and if you live on one side you have a good chance of a good school, if you live on the other, not so good, and downright awful for some. What annoys me is that the Catholics here are 100% Catholic for primary. As soon as they reach 9 or 10, the Catholicism element of their education is suddenly not important after all. What happens is that the girls get the pick of the bunch and most go to the excellent girls' Catholic. The boys reject the mixed Catholic and take places at one of the better co-eds (many of them seem to live in the 'right place'). This means, and I know plenty of them, that lots of non-Catholics end up with one of the poorly-performing schools, unless they want a place at a faith school that so-called People of Faith have rejected. How come it's Catholic Catholic Catholic until, suddenly, 'Oh, we're not that catholic after all'???

TalkinPeace2 · 02/03/2012 21:00

I am against ANY discrimination in taxpayer funded education, be it academic or religious.
I object to the fact that "religious" schools are permitted to teach their own (distorted) views on science, history, ethics, the treatment of women and non believers