Friend won appeal based on lie

You are carried away. Churches are full of people in all ages. You are talking about minorities

No it's almost like people shouldn't lie to get into anywhere...but it's popular on here to accept what we wouldn't accept anywhere else because people choose to attend a school that already has rules in place, then hate and thwart those rules. A for Good behaviour and Entitlement.

she assumes everybody here is from England and refers to her country which is England and not United countries... United Kingdom

Are “we” indeed? Did you miss that Scotland voted No in the Independence Referendum?

Why? We are a CofE country.

This a thousand times

Beat the discriminatory bastards at their own game

Really odd especially because he was a vicar

My children went to a CoE primary (two nearest were both CoE, this one had a nursery). One of my fellow school governors, whose father was a Vicar and Canon, sent her children to the RC secondary school because there aren't any CE secondaries round here. Specifically for religious reasons, not academic or pastoral ones.

(I was as surprised as you, thinking surely a Christian parent wouldn't want them to be somewhere they weren't accepted at communion, but she considered it better than a secular alternative.)

Class sizes are not smaller and many good Catholic schools are way beyond PAN.
Bullying exists everywhere. It is just discipline and values that change the frequency of it. It is also how strict the Catholic are in dealing with it.

A vast number of kids in Catholic schools are of European origin: Polish, Portuguese, Irish. In big cities they account for more than half of the school

I don't think atheist understand the extent of religion that is in Catholic schools. They thing it is just every day prayers as in CoE
No, it is not. The Catholic RE is at GCSE even.

Because their scores on numeracy and literacy are through the roof compared to other local schools? Because class sizes are smaller and bullying is non existent? Kids can tolerate a few fairy tales if it gets them a good education.

And I am not surprised. Why would any non Catholic or a non Orthodox subject her child to Catholic school? It is not łike with CoE schools where hardly there is any religion

Coming from Scotland I can’t tell you how hilarious I find it that a Catholic would willingly choose a Protestant school, or that a priest would collude in enabling them to go there.

Yes - when we were applying for Reception, we lived in an area that had a rather a limited geographic reach and of our 6 nearest primaries, 5 admitted all their pupils under the religious criteria.

We're atheist with Jewish heritage, so didn't tick the boxes and so didn't qualify for any of our nearest schools.

I would leave off your judgement- leave that to God! 😆

I think he's got enough to worry about in the world, he's in over his head as it is.

Exactly. Lie is an aggressive way to frame this. Sounds like an exaggeration at worst. It's very difficult to get to church regularly with kids (as they moan and resist it so much and have competing extra- curriculars) - it sounds like this person's faith is pretty important to them if they've been going regularly for a year (and presumably the kid is baptised etc or the priest wouldn't have signed anything). I would leave off your judgement- leave that to God! 😆

Why am I not surprised by the catholic church

So would it be ok if she was an atheist who attended the correct number of church services to get her child a place? The whole thing is ridiculous. Parents shouldn’t have to jump through hoops and pretend to be religious just to get their kids into a better school!

Sorry I made no sense!
When the 50% rule around new faith schools was brought in the Catholic Church refused to set up any more faith schools as they refused to reject Catholics in favour of non Catholics.

That's the point. New faith schools had to accept 50% non faith students. Catholic church refused to set anymore as they refused to reject non Catholics. The Muslim schools happily set up in the knowledge that only Muslims wanted to go. That is why they government are trying to revoke the faith schools cap.

didn't want the child of a liar going to a local Catholic school? Churches together gives you 'points' if you are a Christian church goer. Less points than if you go regularly to a CofE but more than if you are other faith or no faith.

Why do you care?

Oversubscribed. But I think that the problem here people have with oversubscribed schools. Nearly all Catholic schools have in their admission policy the last criterion which is " All other children". But it never is the case in oversubscribed schools as siblings, catholic kids, and orthodox are taking all PAN.
Undersubscribed Catholic schools in most cases do take children of other denominations

Kindly, OP, I would advise you to get real problems. Is it a much better school? Resourceful parenting if so!

@VeryGoodVeryNiceChickenNugget no state faith schools should exist. Self funding/private schools- up to them.

For Catholic schools the requirements are often very strict e.g. child has to be baptised within the first half a year of their life, priests checking presence after the masses etc

Doesn't that apply only to oversubscribed RC schools? For undersubscribed RC schools, won't they take any child to make up the numbers? Or do you not consider those to be "real Catholic" schools?