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**Chris** · 14-04-2014, 19:10

The State does not own children, nor does it have legal guardianship of them. That is the parents' responsibility and privilege. If parents wish their children's education to take place in an environment whose ethos is informed, for example, by Roman Catholic belief and practice, then that is their absolute right and it would be chilling to think that anybody in a liberal democracy such as ours might attempt to push for anything else.

Beyond the absolute right of the parents to choose the manner of their children's upbringing, they have the right to State assistance in that, via the State funding of Aided schools, which recognises both the place religion had in pushing for universal education in the UK and also recognises the high cost of education due largely to the extensive nature of education to the age of 16 or 18.

Aside from that, it is asinine to believe that a "secular" school is capable of mixing and balancing the ethos of multiple religions, or even none at all, in attempting to set the tone against which living and learning in that environment will take place, or that whatever ethos a secular school devises must by definition be superior.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,377	Re: 'Muslim Plot' To Take Over Schools Investigated The State does not own children, nor does it have legal guardianship of them. That is the parents' responsibility and privilege. If parents wish their children's education to take place in an environment whose ethos is informed, for example, by Roman Catholic belief and practice, then that is their absolute right and it would be chilling to think that anybody in a liberal democracy such as ours might attempt to push for anything else. Beyond the absolute right of the parents to choose the manner of their children's upbringing, they have the right to State assistance in that, via the State funding of Aided schools, which recognises both the place religion had in pushing for universal education in the UK and also recognises the high cost of education due largely to the extensive nature of education to the age of 16 or 18. Aside from that, it is asinine to believe that a "secular" school is capable of mixing and balancing the ethos of multiple religions, or even none at all, in attempting to set the tone against which living and learning in that environment will take place, or that whatever ethos a secular school devises must by definition be superior.