Monday, September 23, 2019
"Labour Commits to Abolishing Private Schools"
Here is news about an (I think) striking proposal in the United Kingdom:
"[T]he motion passed by Labour . . . said the next Labour manifesto should include a 'commitment to integrate all private schools into the state sector'. That would see the 'withdrawal of charitable status and all other public subsidies and tax privileges, including business rate exemption', the motion said. It also demanded that universities only admit 7% of students from private schools, to reflect the proportion of all pupils who attend them. The motion also called for 'endowments, investments and properties held by private schools to be redistributed democratically and fairly across the country’s educational institutions'.
The primary target of this proposal seems not so much to be religious and parochial schools (in the U.K., the state sector includes a variety of "faith schools"), but rather elite institutions like Eton, etc. That said, calls to "abolish Catholic schools" are regular and recurring.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2019/09/labour-commits-to-abolishing-private-schools.html