Faith schools need to change

The report launched by the Runnymede Trust today, Right to Divide? Faith Schools and Community Cohesion’, is serious, balanced and well researched.

The Right to Divide report recommends that faith schools should:
* End selection on the basis of faith
* Give children a greater say in how the school is run
* Make broad-based RE lessons part of the national curriculum
* Do better at serving the most disadvantaged
* Stop privileging religious identity over those of gender, ethnicity, age, ability or sexual orientation

But it also says that faith should continue to play an important role in the education system.
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