You’re fine to think what you want to think. But if you claim you ‘have expressed an opinion without name-calling’ at the same time as calling people names, you shouldn’t be surprised if people point out that you’re not being entirely truthful.
And I think my child has the right to benefit from a Catholic education.
You can think so all you like. No such right exists in either law or practice.
just as I think your child has the right to benefit from a secular education, where the benefit is defined according to YOUR judgment and religious principles.
I do not have that right (and neither do I have the ability to make it happen which is why my kids go to a faith school). It is not practical, or affordable, or desirable to segregate and educate children separately and locally based on their parents’ religious beliefs (or lack thereof),
That isn’t self-interest.
It absolutely is. You want a massively expanded and more expensive state education system so you aren’t inconvenienced. You want to continue to have selection criteria for schools despite being presented with evidence that such criteria are socially selective and disproportionately exclude disadvantaged children.
Your proposed solution would mean taxpayers are paying a huge amount more for the state to do the jobs of parents and religious institutions when it is not the core work of the education system. It would prevent children from mixing with children of different backgrounds and faiths and truly learning tolerance, understanding and respect for each other. And it would ghettoise the poorest children and those with SEN even more than now.
I have the same interest in all children being educated in the faiths of their families and cultures.
Are you doing anything to change the system? Or are you simply comfortable with your own privilege and the discrimination it causes?