Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
15-01-2012, 18:10
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
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You appear to be describing something you know well....
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That's slander.
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Let me try to decipher your meaning - are you saying that if someone states/tries to bring their children up in line with their own Church of England Christian beliefs, that it is akin to stating to one's children that it is ok to dislike people with different skin colour to one's own, to dislike women, and to defraud customers on eBay?
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Yes. unless it's any different to what you said. and you don't assume that the religious teachings/upbringings are let's say as an example, homophobic?
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That could be said of a number of things (vegetarianism, communism, use of the Oxford comma, supporting Manchester United, etc etc).
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15-01-2012, 18:20
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
Why? I didn't make a false spoken statement.
I try not to assume anything, but I can state for a fact that any religious discussions in our house do not involve, let's say as an example, homophobia (in fact, totally the opposite - our family are very anti-homophobic).
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15-01-2012, 19:29
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
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Well I can't say I think this has been that much of a problem.How many publicly funded schools teach creationism as a science?
How many proposed free schools are there to beset up by Creationists?
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Agreed, it's not like we're in the mid- west of the USA
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16-01-2012, 08:54
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
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Agreed, it's not like we're in the mid- west of the USA
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16-01-2012, 12:34
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
What the government should also do is shut down faith schools (of all faiths) and repalce them with secular school replacements, they are not right for Britain and they cause a lot of problems, Take Northern Ireland for example!
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16-01-2012, 12:40
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
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What the government should also do is shut down faith schools (of all faiths) and repalce them with secular school replacements, they are not right for Britain and they cause a lot of problems, Take Northern Ireland for example!
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At last, a sensible comment.
I knew you had it in you.
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16-01-2012, 12:49
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
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Originally Posted by Pierre
At last, a sensible comment.
I knew you had it in you.
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You are welcome! 
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16-01-2012, 12:52
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
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At last, a sensible comment.
I knew you had it in you.
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Law of averages, surely?
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23-05-2012, 10:46
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Re: Government withdraws funding for schools that teach Creationism
As a swift update to this thread a number of free schools with 'creationist' undertones have been rejected by the Department for Education from proceeding with their applications.
The concern still remains, of course, that groups on the fringes will continue to attempt to use the free schools system to get this pseudoscience into the classroom despite the funding withdrawal.
For the time being though it looks as though it's being confined to private schools.
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