Appeal court rejects latest challenge to adding VAT to UK private school fees

Parents opposing plans told they can home school their children if they object to sending them to state schools

The Guardian
Evangelical education nearly ruined me. Now the Christian right is coming for public schools

From Bible stories to the Ten Commandments, public schools are starting to look a lot like the fundamentalist system I escaped

The Guardian

*talking about other religions besides Christianity*

Mom: It's fine when they don't push their religion on other people.

me: Uh...you sent me to a Christian school.

Mom: That's not the same thing.

Oh yeah. Sending me to a school in which lessons literally condemned you for being a working mother, decried feminism as a great evil, and said that homosexuality is a learned behavior which deserves eternal torment.

Totally not the same thing as Islamic fundamentalists forcing their beliefs on people.

I love you, Mom, but quit gaslighting me. Thanks.

#gaslighting #cognitivedissonance #toxicchristiantiy #exchristian #faithschools

Faith schools in England will no longer have to offer up to half of their places to children who don’t belong to their religion, under changes to state school admissions rules sneakily announced by the government, after serious lobbying by the Catholic Church.

I propose, therefore, that the 100% funding they get from the state is also scrapped. I don't object to faith schools. I do object to them being funded by the state.
#Education #FaithSchools

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/england-scraps-50-rule-on-faith-school-admissions?CMP=GTUK_email

England scraps 50% rule on faith school admissions

Allowing 100% faith-based access would be divisive and likely penalise disadvantaged children, say campaigners

The Guardian
Faith schools repeatedly refuse to teach about same sex relationships

Three independent faith schools are refusing to teach about same sex relationships despite previous criticisms from inspectors. Read More »

National Secular Society
Islamic schools trust apologises for Facebook post calling gay people ‘evil’

The Abu Bakr Trust has apologised after a volunteer used the organisation's Facebook to post about how gay people are "evil".

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Birmingham Islamic school sues Ofsted after being failed for leaflet

Birchfield girls’ school rated inadequate after inspectors find ‘inflammatory’ circular from 1994