10-20-2010, 12:17 PM
(10-19-2010, 08:53 PM)cigarbabe Wrote: Why the hell should Catholic schools receive fundingreligion isn't the problem. many of the islamic schools don't allow non islamic pupils, many teach english as the second and sometimes third language. religious education is an islamic eduaction. all other religions are ignored or villified,
if not all the rest of the secular schools aren't?
Personally I don't think the state should fund these types of schools
with their "bible based" curriculum.
Most of what some of them teach is just BS
as least as far as "science theory" goes.
As far as Merkels goes; she is simply a bigoted asshole.
C.B.
catholic schools in the uk teach the kids about Islam, Judaism, and many more religions. the islamic schools are supposed to but they don't. it's now at the stage where school are generally muslim populated or christian populated.
at one point i was told my child had to go to a certain school. the school had 18 non muslims in it and 40 something white kids out of 450. the teachers seldom spoke to my child in class. when i complained about it i was told "we'll put her in another school" i later found out it was the poicy to only put a small percentage of christian white kids in the muslim schools in order to stop the muslim community from complaining. we don't have that many muslim schools but they exist. to a point, catholic schools are the same. though it's more a, you have to be catholic to join thing, they do still teach all about other religions though. i went to one as akid 45 years ago and was often told that others with different religions were as good as everyone else. that just because a person believed in another god they weren't bad.
in general i think we do have a multicultural society in the uk and across europe. i think it's been that way for the last 20 years at least. merkal is as i siad. trying to get support for her party from the right wing.
as far as religious education in a catholic school goes. i'd say 2 hours a week if that spent on religious study. i don't see that as too much as long as part of that time is spent teaching about other religions. for me it's the extreme right christians who stir shit. we only have to look ate the twat who wanted to burn the koran, i doubt you'd ever get that from a catholic church's priest....they much prefer to spend their free time kiddy diddling.
so no i don't think it's failed. i just think it's a little overextended
