Are faith schools partly to blame for social and religious segregation? A new report by the think-tank, the Social Integration Foundation, seems to suggest so. As the Telegraph reported:
No new faith schools should be allowed unless groups planning them can prove pupils will mix with children from other backgrounds in an effort to combat the threat of extremism and social division, an inquiry into integration in the UK has recommended. The final report of the Social Integration Commission, said that the small number of Muslim schools had had 'particular difficulties' ensuring their students have contact with people from other walks of life. Britain’s education system is increasingly 'segregated' along social, religious and racial lines, the inquiry, chaired by Tony Blair’s former Downing Street policy chief Matthew Taylor, concluded.
