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• Same old story, creating cohesive societies by promoting faith schools - secterianism in action

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Faith Schools, Child Abuse, Indoctrination

  (as in publicly funded schools) precisely because they're any society's best shot at building a cohesive society (at least in the minds of kids going to school). Faith based schools, in that sense, are the last thing one would want to see. In a way, they constitute a form of child abuse as children are ideologically brainwashed while

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• Faith schools - the great debate, or no debate?

  Published: September 10, 2007, 9:29 am

  Tags: Faith Schools

  for Hindu , Muslim and Sikh schools to level the playing field (most UK state faith schools are Christian).  The requirement for such schools to take a large percentage from outside the faiths seems to have faded.    Teachers express grave concern: Mary Bousted of the ATL says "We question whether faith schools, particularly

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• More on 'Faith' Schools

  Published: September 19, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: Faith Schools, Canada, Catholic Church, Amnesty International, Tory, Human Rights, Northern Ireland, Abortion

  to pour more tax monies into faith schools, here's an interesting news item about these sorts of outfits in the UK. The Catholic Church, a known progressive force in international human rights circles, has issued a directive to 'its' schools in Northern Ireland to disband amnesty international support groups due to the human rights organisations

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• Faith school U-turn - and the junior God team

  Published: January 10, 2008, 5:29 am

  Tags: Faith Schools

  policy,  Ed Balls the schools minister has said "It is not the policy of the Government nor my department to expand the number of faith schools. We're not leading a drive for more faith schools."  Meanwhile, however,  pupils' enthusiasm for RE classes and exams appears to be booming - more GCSEs and A levels in the

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