Is it true that SOCs will be abolished by the proposed new legislation?If so why?
Jacqui replies: Yes they will. We think that local authorities should be the decision maker about school organisation matters. This is in line with their new strategic role as the champion of parents and pupils in an area. Thomas Muirhead: HI Jacqui, I was wondering whether the Government’s decision to expand faith schools is a short term measure based on better results, that are in fact due to selection rather than religion. Faith schools are a time-bomb that will push different faiths further apart. Do the precedents of South Africa and Northern Ireland not make it clear that it is extremely difficult to make adults integrate, but children do it instinctively. Children don’t notice faith differences unless they are pointed out to them by adults. Our children must all play together unless the generations to come are to find faiths more separated than ever. Faith schools are segregation. Is this not an example of a lack of foresight? Jacqui replies: Faith schools have played an importa
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