Faith School Menace? Page #3
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Well, if he had a cough,
you would get him some cough mixture
or just generally feed his ego.
That's not too serious bribery,
was there anything
more serious than that?
I...
was sort of hinted at
that things like, you know,
and, you know, the fee of 5,000
was sort of bandied about.
5,000?
That if you sort of contributed
that amount,
your child was guaranteed
a place in school.
If you gave 5,000 to the church,
you would get your child
into school?
Yeah, yeah. Oh, absolutely.
It's not money to him,
its getting bums on seats
on Sunday, erm,
if the coffers are full,
he's doing a good job, isn't he?
He actually said that to me.
It's about bums on seats.
We contacted the priest in question.
and stated he had nothing to do
with admissions, which were
dealt with by an independent body.
Of other faiths,
that not every admission
to their schools
is based on parents' religion
compelled to worship
to secure their child a place.
The Board of Deputies of British
Jews makes no apology that parents
must demonstrate a commitment to
the values and ethos of Judaism.
But why are parents
who hold no faith
sending their children
to faith schools?
League tables show that,
of primaries last year
with perfect SATs scores,
two thirds were church-run.
So what's going on?
Surely God isn't
helping pupils in exams?
Through a massive analysis of half
a million primary school pupils,
this man has now has
the authoritative answer.
We can compare children
who live in the same postcode,
so you're comparing houses next
to each other, and if you do this,
very similar circumstances,
one going to a faith school, one not,
you find actually the rate at which
these children progress
is very, very similar.
There's not much of a performance
advantage measured on these terms.
The upshot is that
all the performance advantage
we observe for faith schools is to do
with the motivation of the parents,
it's to do with the background,
you know, their wealth.
So the evidence suggests
that the idea
that improved results in faith
schools are due to faith is a myth.
It's about the social level of
pupils and the pushiness of parents
prepared to jump through hoops
to get their children selected.
Do we conclude from this
that parents are wasting their time
struggling to get their children
into a faith school?
Looking at the data we've got,
that's the conclusion
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