State funded faith schools

[Islador]

While watching the BBC news today after work and this piece game up about a state funded Hindu school (http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/h ... 162975.stm) Leicester. Its also linked to a previous article about this back in January (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8486375.stm). A few criticisms

1) The state shouldn't be funding any faith schools, Church of England included. If the religious want their own schools then they should pay for them, not the taxpayer.

2) This is divisive. Rather than encouraging people to intergrate into British society its segregating them along religious lines. A lady in the clip made the stupid comment that this "relieves anxiety about intergration into mainstream society". Excuse me, what intergration? Building faith schools so that your children can educated in a Hindu environment surrounded by Hindu children and Hindu teachers is not intergrating into mainstream society.

3) They follow the national curriculum but place more importance on their particular religions beliefs and where the two conflict religion is given priority

4) They discriminate against those who aren't of their faith when as state funded schools they should be open for all students regardless of background.

If I could have my way all children would be required to have a secular education and be taught about humanism leaving parents free to indoctrinate their children into their religion at home or places or worship. Alas this is a pipe dream because like the previous government the ConLib Coalition loves faith schools and might even want to do away with the national curriculum and replace it with locally deterimined or 'religious' curriculum as I believe it will be more commonly known as.

I am not happy

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yeah, that's a bummer.

It's really too bad that your Constitution is unwritten.  Having it written would make the absence of an Establishment Clause painfully obvious.

[Goathead]

What else is on?