Does having specially built faith schools promote segregation and isolation?
If the parents want their children in a faith school, they should pay for the building and running of the school. Public funds should not be used to indoctrinate any child. If the schools are 3 times over subscribed, let those parents pay for it. Problems come when those schools are undersubscribed (as happened in a RC school in my area. The local council tried to make parents who did not believe in the RC faith send their children there. Most refused. In England, the local authority will pay the travel for a RC child to attend an RC school if it is the nearest RC school and more than 3 miles away BUT they will not pay for a non RC child to travel to the nearest non RC school. That child will be expected to go to the RC school – which many parents find totally unacceptable. Faith should be kept in the home and in the religious institutions on their holy days and not inflicted on those who do not want or need it.
