End faith-based education

NOT one more penny of public money should be paid out to denominated or faith-based schools in a forward-looking society.

Why should taxpayers’ money be doled out to schools who only permit children and pupils of a certain religious background to the exclusion of everybody else? These types of school mock the very notion of democracy and actively promote division and entrenched sectarianism. It is incredible in this day and age that ethos-education has not yet been completely done away with as a disease of early centuries that needs to be urgently eradicated. Faith-based education is a bastion of crass discrimination and unashamedly demands public money to keep it going.

Faith educators believe in what they are doing so much, they never stop to consider the bigger picture and the damage they are doing inadvertently or otherwise to a society that is more alienated than ever before. Nevertheless, our society and government, however, have not got the message. They are still failing to see the long-term sociological consequences of a deeply segregated school system that is counterproductive in its attempt to educate. It is an astonishing abuse of taxpayers’ money and the instrument of government to continue to fund the root of division and discrimination in a country that falsely ushers unity.