Many of you will have seen the coverage in today’s press of a new pamphlet on ‘faith schools’, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, written by Cristina Odone, which seeks to portray the UK ’s state-funded faith schools as inclusive and under attack from hostile secularists.
The BHA's Andrew Copson responded to the pamphlet today on The Guardian's 'Comment is Free' website. You can read the blog and post a comment at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... s.religion
We are also asking our members and supporters to post messages on the websites of these newspapers that have covered the story:
Daily Mail: http://b.tinyurl.com/5dgdev
Daily Telegraph: http://b.tinyurl.com/5mv87j
This is London: http://b.tinyurl.com/6dwhh7
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Help protest against misguided report on faith schools
Help protest against misguided report on faith schools
From the BHA
Re: Help protest against misguided report on faith schools
I've posted to all three and may have got the first comment in on the This is London website! Just in case they are not published (they are all moderated), my comments were the following:
The Telegraph
The Telegraph
The Mail has a character limit, so I posted the following:Society does not need a diversity of schools, each pandering to all the different religious beliefs of parents; what we need is diversity in the classroom, where ALL children can play together and learn together and where they can focus on what they have in common with their classmates, rather than be continually reminded of the (irrelevant) differences between the numerous religions of their parents.
The State should be neutral on religion: it should not give favour or privilege to any religion and should not fund religiously inspired discrimination - currently practised against both teachers and children - which goes against what the Government is doing in other areas to reduce discrimination.
The claims of those like Iftikhar Ahmad for State-funded schools pushing their particular brand of religion will continue until this Government sees the folly of pandering to the religious by separating children by the religion of their parents, each religious school telling children that their god is the one true god.
At some point, we have to consider the real requirements of social cohesion.
Read the excellent response by Andrew Copson, Education Director of the British Humanist Association, at http://tinyurl.com/4nze3u.
...and the same to This is London.Society does not need a diversity of schools, each pandering to all the different religious beliefs of parents; what we need is diversity in the classroom, where ALL children can play together and learn together and where they can focus on what they have in common with their classmates, rather than be continually reminded of the (irrelevant) differences between the numerous religions of their parents.
The State should be neutral on religion: it should not give favour or privilege to any religion and should not fund religiously inspired discrimination.
At some point, we have to consider the real requirements of social cohesion and see the folly of pandering to the religious by separating children by the religion of their parents, each religious school telling children that their god is the one true god.
Read the excellent response by Andrew Copson, Education Director of the British Humanist Association, at http://tinyurl.com/4nze3u.
Alan Henness
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1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
Re: Help protest against misguided report on faith schools
Wow! I have been reading the comments in the newspapers carrying the news item and I love the responses!
I do not know how much is due to the BHA asking its members to contribute but the pro-freedom schooling is kicking a**! (pardon my french!)
R
I do not know how much is due to the BHA asking its members to contribute but the pro-freedom schooling is kicking a**! (pardon my french!)
R
Student Humanist Society at the University of Edinburgh: http://humanist.eusa.ed.ac.uk