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If we get a grant to build a new extension, new furniture, anything, should that school close, every stick of chalk in the place is owned by the church.
I'd just like to put that out on air because people do not realise that's why there's a hold over the schools.
Secondly, the thing is, if you go for an interview for a teaching job, the first thing you're asked is, have you got a certificate to teach in religion?
Yeah.
And unless you're in special ed, right?
Unless you're in special education.
So that's going to go there.
Currently, in a small school, there is no supervision.
There is no place to send kids outside of a class for religion if they're not doing religion.
Yeah.
You know, it's the same thing as if they opted out of drama, we have to leave them at the back of the class.
I'm not excusing it, but I'm saying that's the reality of it.
No, you don't.
And another thing, anecdotally, the inspectors have told schools who have tried to facilitate it by putting religion to the end of the day,
That religion should be kept to 12 to 12.30.
OK, so the parents can come home and come and take their children home early out of it.
Well, I thought he was cute.
So always felt awful, never felt attractive.