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what people seem to think goes on in a faith school. There is no creationism being taught.)
That all depends on which school though, right?
Also, what of state-funded faith schools? They can get to fuck as far as I'm concerned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_school#Issues_about_faith_schools_in_the_UK
Along with the monarchy I don't want my money going to people that believe in fairies and shit.
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Also, what of state-funded faith schools? They can get to fuck as far as I'm concerned.
That's partly my point. The faith side provides some of the funding, so if you get rid of that then the Government has to pick up the shortfall. That's a fuckload of money each year across 33% of schools and that's going to come from a hike in Council Tax.
Having some control over the admissions criteria is exactly the reason why the faith schools exist. The more progressive schools are opening up more and more places to the local community (irrespective of practice), and new schools are bound by the 50% cap.
In many schools the places always drop down to the "any or no faith" criteria. It's just specific schools in densely populated bits of London where it never gets past the "regular practitioner" sections of the criteria and there's a ballot amongst that cohort for the places.
Greenbank
I don't think the general population would be willing to have an appreciable rise in council tax to facilitate this if implemented all of a sudden.
Faith schools are part funded (10%-25%) by the church/synagogue/etc that they are linked to. The children they educate would still need to go to a school so if this funding disappears the Government have to make up the difference or they have to find new schools in the same area (which generally there aren't).
Also, many of the faith schools are on land not owned by the local authority. There would be a huge real estate bill to buy it to run a non-faith school on the same site.
The government are dealing with this (slowly) in that any new faith school being built is capped at a maximum of 50% faith entry. I can see this slowly being increased over time to eventually separate faith and school. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_50%25_Rule)
(Disclosure: My daughter goes to a faith school so I'm not entirely impartial, however as an atheist myself [my wife does the religion bit] I'm often surprised at what people seem to think goes on in a faith school. There is no creationism being taught.)