The UK government gives money to 6,955 Church of England, Roman Catholic and Methodist schools, 36 Jewish schools, six Muslim, two Sikh, one Greek Orthodox and one Seventh Day Adventist school. I am asking respondents to give a reasoned answer as to whether or not we should continue to support schools that have a religious component outside statutory religious education, which all school children receive. The government has recently opened a commission to look at the "cohesion and integration" of our society. I believe that this question should form part of this debate, as I believe that the teaching of a faith to children has a big impact upon their most fundamental thought processes, and that to ignore this question is to ignore the next generation of our society. Thanks to those of you who answer this question.
2006-09-04
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