Catholic Schools Ban Charity

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

well, if you want to, swap charity for Comic Relief, then

Well actually it's only Catholic schools in Britain.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

technically it's
"Three Catholic Schools in South Wales ban giving to Comic Relief"

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

technically it's
"Three Catholic Schools in South Wales ban giving to Comic Relief"

Maybe we should incliude the names of the schools in the title - because if they're not then there will be confusion as to which three schools you are talking about.

[Mercutio]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

erm in this country you usually go to the nearest state school with places available, unless you can afford to go to a public school

ok...it's the same over here...

as opposed to y'all across the pond, we call state schools public (they have no religious affiliation) and the other one's private (some are religious, others are not). That's what confused me.

[Fat middle]

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Well actually it's only Catholic schools in Britain.

LOL

Okay, I'm not doing anything

[Rían]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

technically it's
"Three Catholic Schools in South Wales ban giving to Comic Relief"

[The Gaffer]

Originally Posted by sun-star

Never mind how much fund-raising you do all the rest of the year - when celebrities ask you to give money, how dare you refuse?

LOL.

You've hit the nail on the head. Just because some washed-up D-list comedians who were last known to be funny circa 1985 are desperate to boost their careers the rest of us have to fall into line.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

you're seperation between Chruch and State is not the same as it is in the US. We don't have a state religion, so all our public schools are purely secular.

Quite, and it's one reason I'd like to see us have a proper, grown-up constitution with a secular state.

Whether you have a choice depends on, as LCoU said, whether there's an alternative nearby. If you live in a small town or in a rural area, you may well have no alternative.

But the worst things about it are:
- why not have state-funded Islamic schools as some groups have demanded, in areas where the majority of kids are muslim? Bit of a double-standard going on there.
- more importantly, it embeds sectarianism. I grew up in the west of Scotland where Protestants and Catholics go to different schools. To my mind it just perpetuates the prejudice that exists between these groups. The first thing that kids learn is that Huns/Tims are somehow "different".

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

Originally Posted by Mercutio

ok...it's the same over here...

as opposed to y'all across the pond, we call state schools public (they have no religious affiliation) and the other one's private (some are religious, others are not). That's what confused me.

the "private" schools are referred to as "public" on our side of the pond because, in days-gone-by, that was were you would be groomed for a life in public service, Politicians, Bishops, Aristocrats, the Officer Class & Civil Servants would have gone to such schools.

[sun-star]

That's actually not the reason: public schools were originally (i.e. 200-600 years ago) founded/endowed for the benefit of the public, in the days before free universal education. IOW, anyone could attend them who was able to pay. Also, not all fee-paying schools are public schools - the naming is just convention.

Re: the title of the thread - it's common journalistic practice to omit the definite or indefinite article before a noun in a headline to save space. The problem arises when it's not possible to tell from the context whether the noun is singular or plural - whether it's a charity or charity in general. That's all that happened here (it looked like some non-native English speakers were confused about that).

[inked]

here's some follow-up from official source:

http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/cn/05/050307a.htm

FYI