to pay for the day to day running of the school!Is it the right time to ask why any school run by a religious order should receive money from the gov?
As far as I am aware, Catholics are welcome to attend Protestant Schools but it depends on available places after all other categories have been filled (eg - Protestant children, teachers' children, etc etc)
Actually it is on the official selection criteria for many schools. Most of these rules are made up pretty arbitrarily. There was some talk a year or so ago about some of them being descriminatory but I guess events have pushed that story down the agenda.I cant imagine being a teachers child gets you special treatment on any official selection critera, however it may well happen in practice.
Are Catholics welcome to attend all Protestant schools?
Actually it is on the official selection criteria for many schools. Most of these rules are made up pretty arbitrarily. There was some talk a year or so ago about some of them being descriminatory but I guess events have pushed that story down the agenda.
Are Catholics welcome to attend all Protestant schools?
You don't solve problems like this with segregation. In fact, segregation (and paying extra to support segregation) is like paying ransom money to kidnappers. It is incentivising unacceptable behaviours.That is why previous to this the government had paid additional funding to schools operated within the Anglican faith. So kids could attend a school within their own faith without fear of prejudice and receive religious instruction within their own faith. Said schools are opened to other denominations and I have never ever heard of any bigotry or prejudice going on there and all of my children's friends loved boarding school, no matter where they attended.
I agree. I think religion should be taken out of the schools altogether. But it won't happen any time too soon. More and more schools are handling children of mixed faith so the overtly Catholic theme needs to go. That is to say, the use of the Our Father or Hail Mary at morning assembly. I had to go to the school when my children got yelled at for either failing to bless themselves or using the wrong hand!
The nasty bigoted kids in school today learned it from their parents and will teach it to their kids. It's no fun being in a minority, whether you are Jewish, Muslim, Mormon or a Jehovah Witness. I am quite surprised by the prejudice I experience from the people in my village, colleagues and even family.
Your average Paddy will not be changing his attitude anytime soon to something he doesn't understand or care to learn about.
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