Hindu faith school on the way: but who gets on the bus?

As the first UK Hindu state faith school is cleared to open next autumn (Leicester wants one too) we get more evidence of the stroppy confusion  surrounding this mixture of religion and education.  In County Durham a boy is denied a bus pass to his Catholic school for not being baptised a Catholic. Make of it  what you will.  How will this apply in religions which don't have baptism?  How does it square with the government's wish to have faith schools take in non-believers for the sake of cohesion?  You tell me.

Comments

[Ian]

Be fair now, that lad in Durham was denied a bus pass by the Local Authority, not the Catholic church. It's not the first time this mix-up has occured, but I suspect a bit of 'propaganda' is being spread against faith schools

[Geoffrey Smith]

The basic principle of justice is that a child should be educated at a school chosen by his/her parents. If the parents choose a faith school for their child, that is nobody's business but their own. This may involve the child attending a school outside the local catchment area, but, if the school accepts the parents' application, the LEA should respect their wishes and allow them all the available grants.