Catholic secondary schools in London have enjoyed a reputation for high academic results but the Bishops have turned it on its head by amazingly trying to lower academic standards to make the school 'more inclusive which is driving away middle class parents and Schools like Cardinal Newman, long seen as proxy grammar schools (for Americans a Grammar school is a state run school that is selective and delivers a high quality education, It is equivalents to the French Lycee or German/Dutch Gymnasium).
Many of these Catholics may well just realise they never believed anyway and were just going through the motions for their kids education so will probably dump the whole absurdity. The Church of England is definitely in crisis; It has been patronising teenagers for years producing embarrassing 'Kids centred' services which make all but the most socially inept cringe.
The whole business with Religious state schools dates back to the 1944 education reform act which provided free secondary education for all but being WW2 they didn't want a fight with the religious establishment who already had their own schools (Catholics , Anglicans and Jews) but incorporated them into the system. The Jewish schools are the best state schools in the country and people with the most obscure connections struggle to get their children in.
Frankly bringing back selective education, as they have in France, Germany and the Netherlands, for entirely secular schools would shatter much of power of religious bodies (and also reduce the power of the private schools)
Many of these Catholics may well just realise they never believed anyway and were just going through the motions for their kids education so will probably dump the whole absurdity. The Church of England is definitely in crisis; It has been patronising teenagers for years producing embarrassing 'Kids centred' services which make all but the most socially inept cringe.
The whole business with Religious state schools dates back to the 1944 education reform act which provided free secondary education for all but being WW2 they didn't want a fight with the religious establishment who already had their own schools (Catholics , Anglicans and Jews) but incorporated them into the system. The Jewish schools are the best state schools in the country and people with the most obscure connections struggle to get their children in.
Frankly bringing back selective education, as they have in France, Germany and the Netherlands, for entirely secular schools would shatter much of power of religious bodies (and also reduce the power of the private schools)
Some may call them junk, I call them treasures.
