Should Faith Schools Be Abolished?

Question

Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with people believing in anything they like. But should my taxes go towards financing state schools which my own children are not able to attend due to them not belonging to that particular sect?

Surely it would be better if faith schools were made into private schools and all children were able to attend state schools regardless of their beliefs.

I am talking about the UK where faith schools are funded from my taxes.

Answer 1

I personally think that its an absolute disgrace that taxpayers money in the United Kingdom is used to finance faith schools.

Why should I pay tax to finance local state schools that my own children will not be allowed to attend due to the fact that I am not a fully paid up member of that faith, whether it be Church of England, Roman Catholic, or indeed some other sect.

We, as parents, should be entitled to send our children to any state school we like, regardless of our own beliefs or lack of them, if we think that school would give our children a decent education.

I also think that it is unfair on the children who are sent to these schools. They are all being denied free choice. This is because the reason these faith schools exist is purely to indoctrinate the next generation into this primitive mumbo jumbo. These children should be left alone to make up their own choices with regard to what they wish to believe in.

I would like to see a world where everyone treated everyone else with respect and dignity. We will never achieve this while state imposed divisions are created through the existence of faith schools.

Answer 2

'Faith School' is an oxymoron

Religion should never be taught as an academic subject like geography or arithmetic. Teaching children to unquestioningly believe what they are told is a really bad idea. They'll either end up gullible idiots who'll believe anything or cynical liars who'll take the lesson that using unfounded claims and dishonest but authoritative statements is socially and professionally (and politically) acceptable as a way of life.

You can't abolish faith schools but taxpayers money should not be used to fund them and private faith schools shouldn't be accredited, either. It's only sense. History teaches that religions stifle humanity and societies deficient in humanity is something civilisation should be leaving behind.

Answer 3

I live in the US, first off, but I went to a faith school from 4th to 6th grade. I was taught that women are inferior and feminism is sick, science is worthless, the Native Americans deserved to be slaughtered because they followed the wrong god, gays should not be allowed to exist, Martin Luther King Jr was a troublemaker, I could go on and on. I am so lucky that I escaped this perverted brainwashing. The thought that schools like this can, in some places, be paid for with taxes scares the living daylights out of me. And that doesn't even include the extreme discrimination practices in hiring,

Answer 4

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I say this because I worked on a local council estate - Orchard Park in Hull. I don't know if you have heard of Hull but we are constantly bottom of the league tables in both SATS and GCSE's.We are a very poor city with a council that celebrated its first star last year - whoopdy doo we were below average just not p*** poor anymore (what a thing to celebrate)

Anyway in this city it is the faith schools that are offering some of the only hope to the kids in the city for gaining any GCSE's. Three years ago one of our worst schools had a 14% pass rate compared to the faith schools (Saint Mary's) 50% - neither are great but the difference is enormous. I saw first hand what this did for the pupils in the area - and you don't have to be catholic to attend. In our area a little extra prayer is not much to pay (and I know atheist parents who agree) to get a good education - and with the national curriculum and good pass rate - they must be teaching science or all the kids would be failing!

Answer 5

I think faith schools with strict entry regulations do little more than cause division and suspicion within wider societies, and it's as unfair on the children as it is on those paying taxes, as they are having their religion decided for them before they're old enough to decide for themselves.

Some 'faith schools' which allow children of any faith (or lack thereof) to attend have fantastic results and little, if any, division in their local societies, so I wouldn't say all faith schools are bad, but some can cause enormous divisions and should be entirely private-funded if they're going to restrict entry to certain groups.

Answer 6

Faith schools should be a private affair that part of the taxes paid by people with school aged children could be set aside.

Answer 7

If as a Science teacher I supported flat-earth, and the Sun orbiting a stationary Earth, after the laughter had stopped, I would be sacked. This would be expected as education should always pursue reality and truth. If as a teacher I believe that people can walk on water, come back to life, talk to Gods or Demons on mountain tops, and perform supernatural tricks, I CAN KEEP MY JOB. You can teach lies to vulnerable children, but only when there is absolutely no scientific support ???

Answer 8

Yes. Yes. Yes.

If it were any other form of propaganda group like say having schools devoted to atheism or socialism, all fury would rain down on the minister for education. BUT because its shrouded in religious belief their can get away with such ridiculous notions such as creationism, as they are in some schools in the UK.

Answer 9

I think you have it backwards. Public schools should be abolished. They are not doing the job.
There is no funding of religious schools, in the US, by governments.
Faith schools are private schools. All children are able to attend state schools, regardless of their beliefs.
Are you talking about the US? It sure does not seem so.

Answer 10

i do no longer think of they must be abolished. Why won't be able to you bypass to college and study approximately God AND worldwide conflict II? what's incorrect with that? I study that your non secular faculties are publicly funded. Do the youngsters who bypass to those faculties as against "ordinary" faculties get a extra effective practise? right here interior the U. S., Catholic faculties are privately funded, however the class sizes are *notably* smaller (a million instructor to 12 pupils as against a million instructor to 35 pupils at a public college); the text cloth books are extra recent/extra academic, frequently the everyday of the youngsters is "extra effective" (i understand that sounds terrible, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that that's real); and teenagers who graduate from deepest faculties interior the U. S. (no longer in simple terms non secular deepest faculties, yet ALL deepest faculties) frequently do plenty extra effective on their SATs and are extra possibly to bypass to college. i'm getting off subject remember right here. to respond to your question, I repeat: i do no longer think of they must be abolished. Why won't be able to you bypass to college and study approximately God AND worldwide conflict II? what's incorrect with that?