Schools

I have no intention of commenting regularly on the election but this proposal of the Conservative party caught my eye today: More Faith Schools.

I went to a Catholic Primary School and then a Catholic Secondary School for three years then a non-denominational/Church of England Secondary School for four years. In the Catholic Secondary School I will not pretend that everyone was morally perfect, there were teenage pregnancies, drug users etc, but we were taught about moral issues - these were discussed and I know that a lot of people came out with strong views about these ideas. In the non-Catholic school I didn't feel the same sense of moral grounding. Things were discussed in terms of school rules, rather than moral right and wrong.

I have also done some voluntary work in Catholic first schools (the equivalent of Infants) and Dragon Dada and I recently applied for schools for our Dragonet. I don't have much experience of non-denominational Primary education but I'll say this for my experience of Faith schools - they do teach right and wrong.