Is it true that in UK the families should attend the church in order the children get a better schooling?

Question

can anyone explain to me why is that?

Answer 1

Not in the slightest, even Catholic schools take non Catholic children if they have space for them.  Most schools are non-denominational, here in the UK.

Catholic schools mainly take practising Catholic children, but as I said before, they will take non Catholic children if they have space - the one near the school I work in has a few non Catholic children attending - but they need to be prepared to be taught the same religious education as the rest of the children.

Answer 2

No, it's not true.

Some state faith schools give preference to children who are members of the appropriate faith - so Catholic schools can preferentially select Catholic pupils, for instance. But there's no reason why faith schools should be better than non-faith ones. Sometimes they are and sometimes they aren't.

Answer 3

A lot of schools in the UK are 'faith schools' eg Jewish, Roman Catholic, Church of England.

Some of these schools have a better reputation so parents want to send their children to them but because they are faith schools the school can (ans in a lot of cases do) ask for the child to be 'practising' ie attending church (synagogue etc).

Some of them also ask the parents for a 'donation' of £550 or £1000 for their child to be admitted.

All children get a school place but those who go to church and have money can get their child into the school of their choice.  

Answer 4

No, that is not true. If children are attending a Catholic school, however, then they have to be baptized a Catholic.

Answer 5

Heavens, not at all!

I mean, some parents might investigate schools and find out that the one that offers the education they'd most like for their child is a faith school, at which point they will start going to any lengths necessary to get their child a place at that school (moving to within catchment area, attending church, lying to nuns, etc), but this is pretty rare.

Generally, church-going has no effect whatsoever on a child's education, beyond making them a little more well-acquainted with the Bible than any non-church-going child.

Answer 6

No it is so absurd !!!!

Answer 7

Erm no! in the UK you do not have to go to church to get better schooling we do have church of england schools but they teach other faiths too in these schools - they don't preach or anything. The UK is multicultural so it would be wrong to force people to go to church when they are not Christians we have faith schools for most religions here in the UK and any member of any faith can attend that school

Answer 8

No, you'll get the best schooling by going private generally.

Some good schools that happen to be attached to a church do operate a selection criteria that you have to have been a regular at that school, which is plain stupid.  A friend who is Jewish had to pretend to be C of E to get his kids in at the school at the end of his road, a 2 minute walk. Otherwise they'd have had to get the bus to a school 3 miles away.  He carried on going each week until both kids were in and then stopped.

Catholic schools require that you be a confirmed catholic, but as they usually draw from a wide catchment area they can't usually check that you have been to church.

Other faith schools (Jewish, Muslim, Sikh for example) probably do expect it but that's because members of those religeons treat going to the mosque/synagogue/temple as part of their social activities

Answer 9

Thats not true, the children don't have to attend church to get better schooling unless they are going to a Catholic school in which I think they do have to go, as they tend to mostly accept children who are practising Catholic by faith.

Answer 10

Well this may be true in some cases- for example where the child could either go to a bad school that isn't religious, or to a much better school with better teaching standards and class sizes etc that is a catholic school or something.

But one of the requirements to go there maybe to attend church regularlarly, so in that case this maybe so.

However, this is not usually the case, and most religious schools are obliged to accept at least 25% of the students from different religions other than the usual one.

Answer 11

No, why?

i was a guide and i couldn't stand having to sing graces before eating on guide camp, cause i was just plainly hungry.