13 June 2011

Faith schools fragment communities

.... In communities such as Oldham with several large ethno-religious groupings, it is inevitable that the different faith schools will attract the different communities – the Christian schools serving the white community and the Muslim schools serving the Asian community.

The only way to have schools shared by the whole community is to replace such divisive faith schools with inclusive ones that set out from the start to serve everyone equally, not a narrow, religiously segregated section of the local population. [Guardian Cif] Read more