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mummymonkey
8th March 2006, 12:23 PM
Hurrah!

BBC link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4787496.stm)

A teacher who is an athiest has won an employment tribunal case in which he claimed he was prevented from applying for promotion at a Catholic school.
Marker
8th March 2006, 01:05 PM
Good news!

But it makes me wonder about exactly what is the status of faith-oriented schools?

This decision suggests that you dont have to be a Catholic to teach in a Catholic school.

So do you have to be a Catholic to go to a Catholic school? Certainly "church" schools in my area have entry restrictions depending on attendance at church etc. Is this legal? And does this decision challenge the legality of this?
Freethinker
8th March 2006, 01:24 PM
Good news!

But it makes me wonder about exactly what is the status of faith-oriented schools?

This decision suggests that you dont have to be a Catholic to teach in a Catholic school.

So do you have to be a Catholic to go to a Catholic school? Certainly "church" schools in my area have entry restrictions depending on attendance at church etc. Is this legal? And does this decision challenge the legality of this?

I went to a Catholic school in the US. No restriction as to religion, but if you didn't attend one of the supporting churches of the school, you paid a higher tuition.
Brian Pears
8th March 2006, 01:38 PM
Good news!

This decision suggests that you dont have to be a Catholic to teach in a Catholic school.

I taught maths at a Catholic Secondary Modern (St Joseph's, Sunderland) from 1967 to 1972 and I was a Methodist at that time. This caused no problems whatsoever - indeed I enjoyed my time there more than any other period in my teaching career.
pgwenthold
8th March 2006, 01:55 PM
We had non-catholic teachers teaching in catholic school when I was there.

I suspect the restriction is that you have to "uphold Catholic morality" or something like that, and as long as you aren't teaching the students to use birth control, then you are most of the way there.
Mojo
8th March 2006, 02:10 PM
We had non-catholic teachers teaching in catholic school when I was there.

I suspect the restriction is that you have to "uphold Catholic morality" or something like that, and as long as you aren't teaching the students to use birth control, then you are most of the way there.In this country, if teachers at a Catholic school don't use birth control and are dismissed as a result, it counts as unfair dismissal (http://www.eoc-law.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=3187).

I haven't been able to find out what happened to the priest.
Spidey13
8th March 2006, 02:42 PM
A teacher who is an athiest has won an employment tribunal case in which he claimed he was prevented from applying for promotion at a Catholic school.

Christ, even the BBC can't spell "atheist"!
Dark Jaguar
8th March 2006, 02:46 PM
They are British, so maybe it's spelled differently and even pronounced differently there?
Spidey13
8th March 2006, 02:48 PM
They are British, so maybe it's spelled differently and even pronounced differently there?

Well, the headline spells it correctly, but the first paragraph of the article screws it up.
Pauliesonne
8th March 2006, 03:05 PM
Ils sont des idiots.

Que vous a-t-il fait prévoit.