Well, here’s an interesting read, somewhat old, but still of interest!
It’s about UK faith schools, there have been calls for them to stop recieving state funding, but also there are concerns about the influence of fundamentalist school sponsors with agendas and money to burn, who could use their influence to present their own narrow minded points of view to school pupils.
I notice that the Government is claiming that the schools are popular, but statistics can be made to say anything you please, as I’ve demonstrated before. I think we should recall what’s been done over the years to massage and spin the UK’s unemployment figures.
My own view is that faith schools shouldn’t recieve a penny of state funding. The state has to remain neutral and secular, away from religious fundamentalism. This is the whole point of the seperation of church and state thing, but also, sponsored funding should be more tightly controlled and it should be illegal to attach strings to the money.
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