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Are you going to place your child(ren) on a special-/religion based school or a public school?

Asked by rebbel (35550points) October 12th, 2011

A non-believer myself, I have always had the view that in case that I ever will have children, I would want my child being educated through a public school in some countries that is called State school, I believe, rather than a religion based school in the Netherlands these are called Special schools…, there are Catholic-, Christian-, Islamitic-, etc. schools.
The reason being that I would not want my child to be only educated in, lets say, a Islamitic way and possibly being made a believer from a young age.
I’d rather he/she would learn a more general view on all the religions there are, as well as other ‘beliefs’, like humanism, atheism, nothingism, etc.
Then, later on, when my child has an age and maturity of mind, she/he can make his own decision about which ism fits best.
How do you think about this matter?
Are you a non-believer like me and have the same idea, or would you prefer your child to attend a religious school?
Are you a religious person…, how do you see this?

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