faith schools v non faith schools.

[lewislewis]

to be honest i doubt that they would consent to it (though i would guess the majority of parents at the average c of e school are not actually godbotherers themselves). Just like the parents of kids at grammar schools, they wouldn't want the arena of 'comparative advantage' that they have managed to get into to disappear. Whether we should be funding all that is a different matter - as is the question of whether faith schools add to society and the way different communities live alongside each other.

p.s. there are plenty of cases of staff getting a raw deal at religious schools - for example getting sacked after undergoing a divorce

As long as there is demand from them, I'm happy to contribute (in terms of taxation). They tend to be good schools, again we can't simply get rid of them because the parents want them as faith schools.

 

[In Bloom]

You want a bucket to throw that towel into?

Keep fighting the fight, comrade; you'll do more to keep the meeting halls bare than the massed ranks of capitalism ever could

You've done nothing but restate the same tired mid 20th century rhetoric over and over again, with no regard for what other people have actually said. Don't talk to me about outdated, mate.

Your whole argument is built upon this completely baseless assumption that captialist social relations and "supply and demand" are some kind of morally neutral, objective law of nature, when even the most cursory look into the history of capitalism and it's early idealogues shows otherwise.

 

[In Bloom]

And where's the evidence that children who go to grammar school do any better than children of equal academic ability who don't?