Secularism in School

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Not as it has become; I support individuality. Sadly, what could have been a blessing has turned into fascism and bigotry.

How so?

Agreed. I too want to know how neutrality can be bigotry.

[Polaris]

Not as it has become; I support individuality. Sadly, what could have been a blessing has turned into fascism and bigotry.

How so?

Because the rights of minorities have been restricted so that their beliefs won't offend anyone. Their personal observance isn't harming anyone.

[Bob Kelso]

How so?

Because the rights of minorities have been restricted so that their beliefs won't offend anyone. Their personal observance isn't harming anyone.

Examples?

[Polaris]

Because the rights of minorities have been restricted so that their beliefs won't offend anyone. Their personal observance isn't harming anyone.

Examples?

Even religious people have been able to use the secularization of schools for their oppressions of those of other beliefs.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/harra_sc.htm

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2006/07/re...ublic.html

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Equally in the UK, the non-enforcement of secular neutrality in school governance can lead to debacles where schools actively promote a single faith to the exclusion of the vast majority of children who have not been indoctrinated.

Faith schools are actively supported by our government which is a blight on our education system. But not not that, the UK has now implemented a policy whereby anyone can set up a school with whatever agenda (business, religion etc), gain government funding, and not be accountable to local government education boards or national education policies aside the national curriculum.

It's a shocking state of affairs, and already there are reports of schools being run/hijacked by cartels of religious extremists, as has happened with many local schools in the area where I live in Birmingham.