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  • The children they educate

    Indoctrinate.

    That's a rather simplistic view.

    I'm an atheist parent of a child who's being educated at a faith school. I see no indoctrination.

    I'm not saying there is no indoctrination at all within any faith school, but then each school will vary. In the same way that not all public schools remove all sense of moral/ethical correctness in their pupils and instill supreme arrogance. And that not all state schools leave the thick kids at the back to eat crayons and never give them any form of support.

  • That's a rather simplistic view.

    Indeed it would be, should it encompass the full extent of someone’s view.

    I'm not saying there is no indoctrination at all within any faith school, but then each school will vary.

    Is your child being taught that a certain, or any, religion is truth? If so, that’s quite literally indoctrination. Of course, some faith schools might leave out the faith part and focus on instilling their own ethics and morality into their pupils. That is different from the typical faith school I have encountered.

  • Is your child being taught that a certain, or any, religion is truth? If so, that’s quite literally indoctrination.

    She's being taught about many religions (Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, etc) alongside Christianity. There's certainly no implication that any one is more correct or wrong than any other.

    Religion and faith are quite different things.

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