Faith Academy FAQs

Here's a nice dissection of some of the givernments FAQs about City Academies. It nicely highlights that these schools are a good way of removing education from local control, and centralising it, as they will only be answerable to the Secretary of State, not LEAs.

"All applicants for school places must be considered, though the Code of Practice allows faith schools to give priority for admission to children on the basis of religious affiliation." It is obviously very heartening to know that your child must be 'considered' by any religious school, but that 'priority will be given' on the basis of 'religious affiliation'. Thus, religious organisations can use schools to force parents to attend church or mosque or gurdwara and thus swell their coffers even more.

The need for schools devoted to secular humanism is greater than ever, whilst New Labour is clearly trying to increase the numbers of the devout through odd pieces of social engineering like City Academies...