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  1. 3 Jan 2018

    'For too long the state’s education authorities sat idly by while the fundamental rights of children were sacrificed on the false altars of "religious freedom" and "parental choice"': have their say on

  2. Stop funding says BBC presenter with children at church school (she didn’t choose it) ⁦⁩ ⁦

  3. 11 Nov 2018

    Entirely agree with on this, and I say this as a reasonably devout Christian, have had their time. State education should, and must, be secular to avoid excluding anyone from it.

  4. 3 Sep 2018

    The reality of for non-religious pupils: "I have been called out for not standing up in Mass. I've been told that 'not responding with a significant amplitude to prayers' amounts to not supporting the school"

  5. Jan 2
    Replying to

    Ageism towards the elderly is a problem. But please also include the young in discussions re: ageism. In the UK, children and infants do not get the same rights to have a discrimination-free education () or bodily autonomy () that adults get.

  6. Thanks for all your suggestions re topics BTW, really appreciated them. Some of them I just can’t use as everyone would be in agreement & thus no debate. I think I am gonna go with debating

  7. 22 Nov 2017

    Main consequence of lifting the cap would be less social integration. Evidence shows pupils going to already don't match local area (most stark is the fewer pupils from poor backgrounds). Full research:

  8. 27 Dec 2018

    Strange how those who support generally don't get their medical care at faith hospitals

  9. 5 Dec 2018

    'faith schools educate 1.9 million pupils in state-funded, mainstream primary and secondary schools' - writing ✍️ about ? Find facts, stats and relevant debates in our factsheet on the subject 👩‍🎓

  10. 4 Jan 2018

    'How healthy can an education system be if it champions the vested interests of religion over the better interests of children?'

  11. 8 May 2018

    Listen to founder-director in our brand new podcast series *Encounter*: 1 Should we send our children to ?

  12. 1 Feb 2018

    Who'd have thought that a system allowing schools to indoctrinate children would have lead to a situation where children are being indoctrinated?

  13. 11 May 2018

    Small victory in this piece of news, the government appears to have ditched its promise on removing the cap on faith schools which would have allowed them to allocate more than 50% of places based on religion.

  14. 5 Sep 2018

    Wow. The most radical idea they’ve had in a long time. have an opportunity to herald the start of the debate to rid our schools of religious segregation.

  15. 11 May 2018

    Faith Schools should be banned. Obviously.

  16. 11 May 2018

    Faith schools allowed to accept 100% based on religion. full stop. Is there anything more damaging to future generations than segregating kids based on their parents’ religion? How is this going to help communities integrate? I hate this. 😔

  17. 18 Nov 2018

    And so it begins. If the papers are gunning for you then you know you are doing something right. You’re doing a great job Alice and nothing will ever change if it isn’t challenged.

  18. On at 6: parents letting kids drink booze (not in my house!) And run by religious conservatives teaching homophobia and misogyny. Call me 03456060973.

  19. 13 May 2018

    The only cap there should be on is that there should be zero of them.

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