A duty to promote ‘community cohesion’
Polly Toynbee is not a fan of ‘faith’ schools.
Years of Labour handwringing over community cohesion hardly squares with dividing children by religion. Ask why and here’s the doublethink answer: religious academies now have a “duty to promote community cohesion”.
Is that what the faith school cheering section says? So…they just don’t have a clue? No idea that religion does promote ‘community cohesion’ but at the price of promoting ‘community hostility’ at the same time? They haven’t read the report on Saudi textbooks perhaps – the one that teaches children that ‘A Muslim is forbidden to love and aid the unbelieving enemies of God…They are the people of the Sabbath, whose young people God turned into apes, and whose old people God turned into swine to punish them.’ That’s ‘faith’ school for you.
Aah, poor post, been here three days and no comments yet. There you go…
BTW, unsurprisingly, Maddy Bunting thinks faith schools are a grand idea…
Heehee, thanks Dave. Poor little post.
Yeah I saw Maddy’s thoughts. V. inspiring.
“However, pupils in faith schools are more likely to be tolerant of others in our multi-cultural society because of the ethics that are taught in those schools.”
The commenter has obviously not read the report on the Saudi textbooks.
“Christian practices celebrate the tolerance of others, which is much more likely to make pupils more open-minded individuals rather than indoctrinated zombies”
The same commenter ought log on to B&W as s/he will learn a thing or two to the contrary about religious practices and its ethics – and the devastating effects it leaves on people.
I tried to comment, but found difficulty in fitting the words ‘faith’ and ‘education’ into a coherent sentence.