Free Bus Pass For Atheists

[Underemployed]

The Observer, Sunday April 4th:

A former Lancashire policeman has won several hundred pounds' compensation from his local council after being forced for several years to pay for buses to take his atheist daughter to a non-religious school.

Children whose parents want them to attend a religious school receive subsidies to pay for their school transport pass. But families who don't want their children educated in a religious school have to pay for their own buses to take them to secular state schools.

'The non-religious are just as entitled to travelling assistance to go to a school without a religious ethos as the religious are to a denominational school. My only regret is that the council would not change without the threat of legal action.'

And on a side note, the first thing DJ Steve Wright (A very big player in the UK) played after the Sunday morning God-Slot today was Stevie Wonder's Superstition. There is hope here!

 

[LeFevre]

So the UK is where the wild things are.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

... Children whose parents want them to attend a religious school receive subsidies to pay for their school transport pass. But families who don't want their children educated in a religious school have to pay for their own buses to take them to secular state schools.

Interesting. Compare that to the USA. We're supposedly overrun by fundamentalists, yet the gummint schools are all secular.

 

[kittynh]

Almost every child home schooled where I live is home schooled for religious reasons. The parents get money from the town to pay for books and the children are allowed to attend dances and participate in school sports.

My child attends a private non-religious school. I pay big bucks and don't get a dime from the town, even though by sending her to private school I am saving the town almost $30,000 a year (she has learning disabilities and would qualify for a full time classroom aide).

The reason the town pays is that they don't want to fight the fundies.