Ah yes, Catholic schools: famously incubating radicalism. Clearly the last thing we need right now is children to be taught to love another, as they too are too loved. Dangerous indoctrination. Get rid.
We should get rid of ‘faith schools’ entirely in the UK. Publicly funded education should be secular. The last thing our education system needs is religious silos which might incubate radicalism and indoctrinate young minds.
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@michael_merrick
Isn't the promotion of 'British values' a faith-based statement? Secularism is not a faith-neutral stance and all schools are involved in 'indoctrination' of sorts if they champion any form of 'values'.
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@michael_merrick
Why should my kids be denied a choice of school that my taxes have paid for because of the religion I may or may not have chosen for them?
And the notion that there is no risk to social cohesion from faith schools is daft, look at Northern Ireland
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@TomWilsonBristl
Why should Catholic parents be denied a choice of a Catholic school that their taxes have paid for because you don't happen to have a religion? And no, they don't present a risk to social cohesion, in fact the opposite - look across the UK.
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@michael_merrick
I always want to push takes like this on the logistics. How does this happen? Overnight? How do people propose to manage the incredible backlash? It's also cute how so often people think secularism is the same thing as neutrality.
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@michael_merrick
Given the tone of the comments under that, I'm not 100% sure that Catholicism was the faith that people were thinking of.
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@michael_merrick
And heaven forbid (!) there should be the freedom to have faith as well as the freedom to not!
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