Should single faith schools be privately funded?

[Buzzer]

Well on the basis that I don't believe there should be ANY religious schools I'd say no !

Please for the love of God stop finishing every frigging post with an exclamation mark. It's doing my nut in.

And if you must insist in doing so please, please, please use them properly. No space between the last letter and the punctuation.

Thankyou. *now off to lie down in a dark room*

 

[fat old seagull]

Personally unless anyone can prove the existence of a Supreme Influence of any description, I'd suggest that schools that dedicate their present religious study time to educating kids on more practical and social behaviour issues should receive extra funding.

 

[narly101]

There are already 12.

Interesting. I didn't know that.

 

[narly101]

Personally unless anyone can prove the existence of a Supreme Influence of any description, I'd suggest that schools that dedicate their present religious study time to educating kids on more practical and social behaviour issues should receive extra funding.

I'm with FOS.

 

[narly101]

By all means teach about all the religions in the world to give a grounding based education on the matter, but to specifically target time spent in the classroom on religious idoctrination (at whatever level) should not receive state funding. The school should fund it itself.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

I think every child deserves the chance to go to a faith school. After all, they've been such a resounding success in Northern Ireland.

 

[stripeyshark]

We are a multi faith country.

Ok, vicar. Someone should tell the Queen (defender of the faith) that.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

By 'faith schools' do we mean Catholic?

How many of the people moaning about them actually went to one?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Please for the love of God stop finishing every frigging post with an exclamation mark. It's doing my nut in.

And if you must insist in doing so please, please, please use them properly. No space between the last letter and the punctuation.

Thankyou. *now off to lie down in a dark room*

Tough shit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Buzzer]

Anyone who posts exclamation marks after every post comes across like Colin Hunt from the Fast Show. Everything's wacky!!! Hey look at me!!! I'm mad!!! Everything's really exciting!!! Wahey!!!


Bart Simpson ties and matching socks all round.





Christ, I'm hungover.

 

[The Large One]

Ok, vicar. Someone should tell the Queen (defender of the faith) that.

When Prince Charles becomes King, he intends to change it to 'Defender of Faith', as opposed to 'Defender of The Faith'.

So there.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Anyone who posts exclamation marks after every post comes across like Colin Hunt from the Fast Show. Everything's wacky!!! Hey look at me!!! I'm mad!!! Everything's really exciting!!! Wahey!!!


Bart Simpson ties and matching socks all round.





Christ, I'm hungover.

Moaning OLD git !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Buzzer]

Yeah. You're just so f*cking wacky.


And funny. Definitely funny.

 

[glasfryn]

When Prince Charles becomes King, he intends to change it to 'Defender of Faith', as opposed to 'Defender of The Faith'.

So there.

I feel the tremors now from Henry the eighth spinning in his grave

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Yeah. You're just so f*cking wacky.


And funny. Definitely funny.

And you're a miserable old sod but I don't hold it against you.

 

[Goldstone1976]

When Prince Charles becomes King, he intends to change it to 'Defender of Faith', as opposed to 'Defender of The Faith'.

So there.

Yep, he does. It will be interesting to see if that actually happens though. As HoS, his duties are governed by more than just his desire. Parliament will have to approve the change before he can do it. I suspect they will, but there'll be a sizeable proportion (presumably Tory) who would vote against it?

 

[beorhthelm]

I put this to you all:

Either

A) Faith schools have absolutely no entrance criteria whatsoever, no requirement to attend church, have exactly the same entrance requirements as any other school and they can continue to receive public funding.

or

B) They become private institutions.

It really is as simple as that.

correct answer.

 

[Buzzer]

Once again we have people trying to fix something that isn't broken.

Faith schools work well as they are and the entrance criteria is fairly low. My 2 sons went to the local CoE school and loved it there. The ethos was very much New Testament, being a good citizen and doing unto others... They also got to sing some lovely hymns, learnt about other religions in a respectful way and came out of it well-adjusted.

Also, they took part in wider community projects associated with the church that they were affiliated to. They got to meet lots of older folk with some great stories to tell and the older folk got to meet the kids and both parties really benefitted from it. Neither non-faith school nearby offered the same opportunities.

They were also in contact with faith schools in developing countries and probably had greater access to understanding what it was like to be a child in those countries than their peers in the nearby non-faith, secular primary schools. Once again neither non-faith school nearby had a similar 'twinning' programme.

There's benefits to both. Let the atheists send their kids to state-funded secular schools and let those who want to send their kids to state-funded faith schools do that.

 

[beorhthelm]

Once again we have people trying to fix something that isn't broken.

Faith schools work well as they are and the entrance criteria is fairly low.

and thats why it is broken, there shouldn't be any entrance critieria. (save for proximity or similar practical aspects)

 

[Gazwag]

There's plenty of parents who'd like to send their children to Newman despite not being Catholic. Why ? Because they have great facilities and very good results.

And you can bet they descriminate heavily against children who are not bright enough.

Cherrypicking faith schools get good results because they can pick and chose which children they take.