northerner

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > but once you are a parent you will realise that > the rules of morality dont exist when confronted > with sending your child to a decent local catholic > school over a horridly under funded state school, I don't think you should even consider it immoral pulling the wool over the churches eyes to get your child into the school of your choice. Why should a significant percentage of local schools be unavailable to you as a parent just because you don't share the faith of the organisation that governs it? Btw, I'm not anti church or anti faith, just anti faith groups running schools. Personally I think children should be taught about all the main faiths and allowed to choose any or none when old enough to make an intelligent choice ( dream on! ). This does not imply that they should be raised with no moral framework and allowed to run wild. A school is perfectly capable of imposing a strong moral framework without the help of the church.

spadetownboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- next time im in st thomas > mores i,ll say an extra hail mary for the > repentance of your black soul. Cheers mate, but my soul is at peace with itself and the universe :)

What I think is a "little pathetic" is that faith groups have a hand in education at all in this country. Having said that, if you have a child at school age, and your chosen school is a church school, then the church or it's followers should have no problem with you as a pretender coming into their church for a year to get your kids into school. In fact they should be grateful you're coming at all and see it as a marketing opportunity. If churches had no say in admission policies of certain schools, do you really think that church attendance would be anywhere near what it is at the moment in East Dulwich? Go along and check out all the parents with toddlers in the congregation trying to ingratiate themselves with the vicar. Sad? Yes; it's an awful situation. Deceitful? I have no problem deceiving a system that's rotten.