Why should religion have any influence on our lives?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I'm not 'forcing' anyone to use anything, I'm stating that the public should not and must not fund the religious vanity projects that are faith schools, especially when the majority disagree. Their main purpose is to indoctrinate people into religion before teaching. If it wasn't then why don't, for example, the RCC simply give money to other non faith based schools to boost their budgets?

If all the resources that went into faith schools went into comps then those schools would perform much, much better. People do not send their children to faith schools because of the religion they do so because of the grades, pure and simple.

And we cannot gloss over the fact that faith schools have a right to practice legal segregation. This is illegal in most other public bodies but yet faith schools have been granted an exemption. Not only that but they can teach whatever they want in RE!

It's shocking to me that you automatically dismiss these other schools as 'lowest comment denominator' but are quite happy to let them stay there (or not) so long as the lucky, segregated select few get their better education. If they're suffering from poor funding, see how many over subscribed discriminating and segregating faith schools are in the area and analyse who recieved what.

And I still have no idea how many non-Catholics went to your children's school. My school, as I said, must have had around 25ish% percent who were Muslims because it didn't discriminate based on belief.

What faith schools effectively say is, if you want there best education, the best opportunities and the best jobs, helps to be a [catholic]. And that's the message we, in 21st century UK want to send out is it?