Confused Are religious people disabled?

[Scouse]

That was obvious from the get go.

Race and religion in educational hotbeds of idiocy.

 

[Job]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/05/church-schools-shun-poorest-pupils?newsfeed=true

Newspapers report the bleedin obvious, the only good thing about faith schools is most of the parents pretend to believe just to get their kids into a school that knocks back ragasses.
It's so transparent and endemic that it beggars belief (no pun intended) they don't just advertise it on the front gate.

 

[Wij]

It's a total scam. Schools use 'religious tests' to filter out the less bright and less well off families and then surprise surprise, get better results than other local schools. This means they get over-subscribed and they can then select from an ample field of ambitious parents again. All the while this fuels the myth that there is huge demand for religious schools.

Boils my piss etc...

I'm just glad I live in an area where there is a decent non-faith school. And yes, that was on my mind when I moved here

 

[Raven]

I went to a good old fashioned CofE primary school and if anything it taught me how ludicrous the idea of religion actually is.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I went to a good old fashioned CofE primary school and if anything it taught me how ludicrous the idea of religion actually is.

I'd argue that the idea is solid, but the implementation is just awful

 

[DaGaffer]

In Ireland we have the opposite problem, its almost impossible to send your kids to a non-faith school; there are a few, but unfortunately the main "chain" of non-faith schools is a bit hippy-dippy for my taste, so it probably means we'll be stuck with the catholic school system unless I'm suddenly rich enough for ten grand a year private schools.

The missus is already worried about me clashing with school authorities when our kids start going; I found out the other day that pretty much all schools gaelicise kid's names when they take the register and I'm not fucking having it (my oldest has an Irish name so no problem, but my youngest doesn't); I think its shockingly racist to change a child's given name to suit nationalist dogma, and just to add salt to the wound, they don't do it if the kid has say, an Asian or Polish name, only with "English" names.

 

[Wij]

The dorty feckers!

 

[Job]

In between the post the doorbell went, nice chap with probably daughter in tow.
Shows me the old watchtower leaflet.
So I say 'I'm a militant aethiest'
He just looked for few seconds and said 'Oh..ok'
I closed the door.
Probably get a red cross painted on it tonight.

 

[Wij]

I had one the other week who tried to persuade me that evolution couldn't happen because complex things can't come from less complex things. I introduced him to thermodynamics and the argument he was trying to express before pointing out that this big yellow thing in the sky renders it a pointless argument. He smiled and said he'd look into it. Was quite pleasant really.