anyway… when trying to find your website I typed in http://www.blogistan.co.uk into the web browser and it took me to what looked like an older version of your site (the latest article appears to be from 2005). The linke actually redirects to http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blogistan (instead of /blog).

Apologies if you are already aware of this - but thought I’d let you know incase idiots like me went to the wrong page and missed out on your commentary!

Wasalaam

I’m really not sure about these proposals - how would you regulate faith in state schools, how much say would parents and children have, what if the imam or rabbi isn’t of the same school of thought/religion as the child’s parents - recipe for trouble there?

At least with secular state schools and private faith schools you know where you stand. Plus I would have thought that the state’s responsibility is to provide every child with an education, not religious instruction.

This is an important subject for me, because my children’s academic performance and thorough religious instruction are both deeply important to me and I wonder which mix of the two would work best (faith school, state school and madrassah, home-schooling?). How to find the balance between mixing with different people and being proud and knowledgeable of your own faith and identity?

Looking at the NUT’s proposals, the bit that surprised me was: “Every school is required to offer a daily act of Christian-based worship”