Should Single Faith Schools be banned?

Answer 1

Yes, absoloutley. In a modern society there should be no room for segregation of religions. It encourages children to see differences between themselves and allows a chance for hatred to creep in. We should be actively encouraging (I beleive the buzz word is) multiculturalism and the first place children are introduced to this is at school!!! By allowing children to go to single faith schools you are effectively depriving them of this oppourtunity.

I personally am all for banning religion in schools altogether, and the paraphenalia that goes with it. My main reasoning for this is that it would allow children to be integrated into each others beleifs gradually rather than being thrown in at the deep end ( a black child that has never seen an asian child is likely to be confused by this just as much as a white child who has never seen an asian child).

Answer 2

The first thought that crossed my mind when I read this question was religion should be banned from all schools and left to parents to sort out this side of teaching!
But after a bit more thought, I do believe single faith schools should be banned, they obviously focus on whatever faith they follow!
Children by nature have very enquiring minds .I think that all children should be taught the diversity of religions at all schools and not just be 'brainwashed' by their parents or school into following blindly any given religion.
Teach them the lot! I have a feeling that you and most parents wont go for this but it is my honest opinion that all religions are just there to offer comfort to the needy ,
( like a drug)!
If children are taught all religions, (as I was) they will eventually draw their own conclusions , that all religions are complete BS!

Answer 3

Yes. All "faith" school should be banned. Schools should educate children, and not indoctrinate and brainwash them into believing irrational and dangerous ideologies and doctrines.
There should be no religion or faith connected to any school. If people want to believe in some irrational things and go to places of worship, they can do that in their sparetime. And if they want religious instruction, they can get that from their clergy.
School should be impartial and fair for everyone, without putting any religious attitudes on it. And where this is the case, schools are much happier places, there is less bullying, and much better academic results.

Answer 4

Okay.....I think I see where this is going. The school can be a single faith based school under the following circumstances.
#1 It's privately funded
#2 It teaches and preaches the morals and laws of the country it is in.
#3 It teaches a matched curriculum that meets or exceeds the public schools in that country. i.e. math, science, (world and country) history, Language of that country, math, literature, etc..etc.. If a country requires student testing then these schools should be held to the standards of all other schools.
#5 They cannot discriminate against teachers or students of other faiths, creed, gender, race.

Answer 5

One of the blessings of our country is the opportunity to choose....since the GOVERNMENT schools are a monopoly in that they determine which school my child goes to whether I agree with it or not, they would have an all out revolution on their hands if they forced private, religious schools or home schools to close. I do not trust the government with my most precious resource: My children!
As for telling a private school which religion can or cannot be endorsed, they have no right there either! The atheistic, liberal freethinkers have no right at all to invade the rest of us with their opinions. One reason I home school my children is because I want to implement the structure of their character, not some stranger who may have no morals about them.

If the government invades a private school and determines that they must allow people of a vastly different religion and we then cannot teach something that may upset them, it no longer is private. If I have a Christian school and a jewish family wants to enroll their child in my school, they must conform to our teaching that Jesus is the Christ- we should not have to conform to their belief system.

Answer 6

On what grounds? Absolutely not. The government has no monopoly over education - in fact, education is not even a legitimate function of the federal government. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution lists the powers that Congress is supposed to have, and education is not among them. I don't remember exactly when, but the government didn't even have anything to do with schools until around the 1830's.

Answer 7

Banning schools on religious grounds is not a good idea. However, denying people permission to create new schools which do not give an open religious policy... one where all religions are treated equally - or not at all - should perhaps be implemented.

Answer 8

YES..... look what happened in N Ireland...kids don't meet others from other faiths and then it becomes us and them..
.we need to be so careful with Christians and others in UK....Or we will end up with a very divided society...
.if people come to live here they must accept our way of life ....they can keep any ideas they like but should conform to the UK norm in society matters...just like every nationality has done in the past...this is how we became the nation we are today,,

Answer 9

I am against single faith schools as it just encourages biggotry. I have noticed that several replies have mentioned that they are private. That is not necessarily true as Catholic schools are part of the state system in Scotland.

Answer 10

If a belief system is not imposing itself on those unwilling to accept then I do not see any point in banning it or doing anything to impede it. That would just alienate a group of people rather than bring them together with other groups.