A colleague, driving his unbaptised six-year-old daughter to school recently, was informed from the back seat: “God made this car, Daddy. My teacher told me God made everything in the world.” In an effort not to bruise her emerging thought processes while remaining true to his non-religious beliefs, he brushed it off gently. “Well, he didn’t do a great job of it, sweetheart.” “I’ll pray for a nicer one, Daddy,” she reassured him. A sweet story, perhaps, but it raises fundamental questions about freedom of thought in our national schools. These pages have seen many stories charting the difficulties of parents of unbaptised children getting a school place for them when the vast majority of...
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