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See, now this is where I have a problem. Isn't it great, for Christians at least, that there are probably* a whole helluvalot more Christian teachers than there are Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist ones? So then, if these teachers were allowed to talk about their faith in the classroom, wouldn't the faith of Christianity be "pushed" a whole lot more than any of the other faiths?

* I don't have any statistics on this, but I imagine that in the US, of those public school teachers who practice a faith, most are Christian?


In the UK a lot of "public" school places are provided by schools run by the Anglican or Catholic churches, we're looking at moving and we'll have no (sensible) choice but to send our kids to one of them. Personally I'd like to send them to a secular school that had R.E. lessons, but I ain't got that option.

I don't like the idea of faith education at all, I'm uncomfortable with the push in the U.K. for muslim schools