I wince when I read leftie commentaries like this one on Labour Uncut. It's essentially a rant against faith schools, suggesting they produce extremists and help produce ghettos. Now I grew up in North-East Manchester in the late 1990s, and it certainly didn't need faith schools there to create the ghettos that existed back then and still do. The simple fact is that in particular areas the majority of kids that go to a school will be from a particular ethnic group. Whether or not that school is a faith school, it will be filled with kids from particular ethnic backgrounds, and if you throw in some state propaganda via a secular school that will probably if anything have an adverse effect on kids, leading to them rejecting the system. Many kids that grow up in Christian schools tend to reject Christianity, so perhaps actually, faith schools might not be a bad idea to enable kids to reject radical variants of Islam.
It would appear Marchant thinks it's actually possible to have a school that doesn't promote a particular faith, forgetting that if you remove the Christian worldview from a school, you must replace it with something else, and that something else will be an athiest worldview, the kind that presents evolution as the facts about how we all got to be here, instead of the theory that it is.
Anyhow, minor rant over. I'm ashamed of left wingers when I read stuff like this. Jesus would have been in the centre...
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