'We don't allow it in any other public service' | Andrew Copson on faith schools | BBC Radio 5 Live

The UK Government proposed to allow all state-funded faith schools in England to base 100% of pupil admissions on religion. Since 2007, all new Academies (known as Free Schools) with a religious character have been limited to selecting 50% of pupils on the basis of faith.
Almost all new state schools are Academies. This so-called ‘50% cap’ will now be lifted for all new Free Schools and all those that have opened since 2007. Humanists UK has condemned this move, and has called for an end to all discrimination in the state school system.
Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson featured on BBC Radio 5 Live, originally broadcast on 01/05/2024

[@toni4729]

Of course they're selective, they choose the best of the students and the best teachers because they can afford to pay them.

[@psychicpaper11]

Discrimination against non believers creates a segregated, divided society where there is little to no interaction between different groups.

[@toni4729]

@@psychicpaper11 No argument there. I don't agree with those schools at all, they should be banned but what can you can be done? Nothing.

[@devvikramsingh7785]

@@psychicpaper11 there is no need to interact . Non-believers dont exist. Atheists are the ones who are discriminating others like in Michaela school

[@devvikramsingh7785]

@@toni4729 they should be banned beacuse of ur diktats and moral policing ??