SCHOOLS: Are independent schools enemies of social cohesion?*

Do Catholic and independent schools help alleviate racism or do they promote unfair discrimination and division?Those opposed to government funding to non-government schools argue the second. Over the past year or two a number of critics have argued that whereas government schools promote the common good, tolerance and respect for difference, non-government schools fragment society and weaken social capital.Sydney University Professor Andrew Jakubowicz argued earlier this year that faith-based s…

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