Sentence examples for religious selections from inspiring English sources

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Religious selection is the most common type of selection in the school system, and it goes hand in hand with lower ethnic and socioeconomic diversity.

"Given that 1.2 million school places in England are subject to religious selection criteria, the number of children who are unfairly losing out on places is significant".

It is to the commission's credit that it also managed to achieve consensus on an even thornier issue: the negative consequences of religious selection in state schools.

A more pragmatic approach is to reduce the impact of faith schools on segregation by reducing religious selection, as the commission has recommended.

This is, in itself, a form of anti-Semitism, as if being Jewish were a racial trait rather than a religious selection.

"It is clearly the case...  that none of the problems that we have identified can be entirely solved unless religious selection is abandoned altogether".

In other words, religious selection criteria are skewed in favour of the children of pushy, ambitious parents – suggesting schools may be succeeding because of their intake rather than the value they themselves add.

"These are welcome rulings, but there is a bigger problem around religious selection, and how it leads to confusion, unfairness and systemic disadvantage to some children, especially from certain ethnic and deprived backgrounds".

Religious selection need not – and should not – be a defining characteristic of a faith school; indeed, some dioceses already encourage their schools not to select on the basis of faith.

We think the issue very important because where religious selection acts as a proxy for selection by race, it segregates on these grounds (which can often act as a proxy for racial and ethnic segregation)." Faith schools are exempt from the prohibition against religious discrimination in the Equality Act.