To ask for your opinion on faith schools?

[Syrinx89]

That's it, really. In this day and age, it seems strange to me.

The problem of some children having a poorer choice of schools because they aren't the right religion can be solved easily. Just introduce a law that says religious preference can only be give in proportion to financial contribution. In most faith schools, government provides roughly 90% of funding, so only 3 spaces in a class of 30 would be allowed to be reserved for children of the right religion.

I totally agree with you, except on the numbers. The government pays 100% of the running costs and 90-100% of the capital costs (depending school and the funding stream) for faith schools so it would be much lower than 10% of kids.

@Girlinterruption They’re already at state schools so they wouldn’t be moving out of the state education system. They would still go to that school if they aren’t pushing out a more local kid. Otherwise they’d go to their local school, which would rightly represent its local community, including the children of all faiths who live there.

Given the faith composition of Britain there aren’t all that many communities where they would be an overwhelming majority - though peaks and troughs, of course.

How long until they change ethos - they will be in the majority there.

Areas where there are large numbers of Muslims aside, I don't believe the beliefs of CoE parents are significantly different to the beliefs of community school parents, and I think it's nuts to believe that if you completely swapped both sets, there were be any impact on either sets of schools ethos. Apart from a little religious teaching and advertising, there's hardly any difference in the first place, for CoE schools anyway. Both will teach what's in their charter, and 99% of the parents will continue not to care much what that is. (Threads like these create a false impression of how many care, as they attract the few who do.)

France is a Republic

And?

I don't see any issue with faith schools. I went to a Catholic school as I'm a catholic. My son is not any religion as my dh wouldn't have him baptised catholic as I wanted and i refused to have him christened Church of England which is my husbands religion.
He will go to school in September. First choice is a catholic school because that was the best school for ds out of our nearest 3 (we had to agree to put religion aside as there was a catholic school a CofE school and a non religious school). I admit I'm glad he will be going to a catholic school (hopefully) as I wish he was a catholic anyway, and dh is happy as it's the best school for ds.

Just read some interesting comments there.

For years the Church/religion has lost their one sided point of view on how to educate children for good reasons.

During the family time outwith school then what a child learns is between them and the parents.
School is for education only unless it is Sunday school
Church is for learning about faith.

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