Watching my friends, mainly on facebook, talk about the choice of schools for their children is instructive, The middle classes may be short of money but they are certainly not short of savvy when it comes to choice of school for their children.
I am frequently asked by friends who are not themselves Catholic to comment on the virtues (hang on not of St Thomas) but of possible Catholic schools. I have no idea so tell them this. I do not know if they think I (me?) pull strings for them. I ask them why Immaculate Heart of Mary School for the Creative Arts or St Galileo's Specialist School for Science etc? The answers come back multilayered - results. discipline, uniform, 'the atmosphere' (I do not sniff at this) and pastoral care.
I would not like to be a parish priest having to sign off parental applications. Nor a school selector.
We had a leaflet through the door for the first state funded Hindu school opening in Leicester http://www.krishna-avanti-leicester.org.uk/
We were tickled at the last sentence on the flyer: School address: Spencefield Lane, Evington, Leicester LE5 6HN (follow the sign for St Paul’s Catholic School). I could not imagine any other faith school giving directions via another faith school. Speaks volumes about the HIndu values at least as I experience them in this city.
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