Primary Schools: What does Voluntary Aided mean and how will affect our daughter's application

[Wills]

Hi, We're about to move house and will be a quarter of a mile from a Voluntary aided CofE school. The only other school is a mile away and very poor. My husband is almost religious in his agnostic views about religion. Will his views prevent our daughters from attending this school?

I hate the fact that so many school are becoming church linked now. Where I live there are excellent schools, but the closest is a cofe, followed by a catholic, then there is another cofe and a normal school. dd prob wont get into the junior school linked to her infant school, as it is cofe and we aren't, and the intake is lower than that of the infant school. Which means I'll prob end up doubling my journey to school to get her to the nearest non religious school. plus my two youngest are hindu and so dp is really nto keen on a xtian school for them at all. I'm not keen really neither. And a lot of the time, it is the church schools which provide the best education, so people who don't want a religion taught to their children have no choice but to go for a lower achieving school.

oh, and the school would expect us to support what she is learning in school, which we clearly can't! Surely we should have the right to send our kids to our local school without religion being dictated to us?

you dont have to do any christian education at home if you don't want to kelly

Blu. Offer was accepted. I'm soooo in love with the house that I'm desperate for things to go through now. Still we're moving house on thursday so that should occupy my mind for a couple of days at least.

enid, I know, but we're supposed to support it which means if she is taught christian things which we don't believe in or go right against our beliefs, we aren't supposed to contradict them. I could contradict it anyway, but that would jsut be confusing!

dh contradicts everything dd1 learns in church

if she asks me what is true I always say 'some people believe x, some people believe y, its up to you to decide'

honestly kelly they dont police what you tell them at home

that's what I plan on telling my kids. I am worried about confusing them tho. kids at that age are so easily influenced too. I was sent to church as a kid, and it did have a really strong influence on me until I was older, and could make decisions for myself.