The private high school that I attended did both. Some kids got a place as they were booked in and paid for before birth. Others, like me, did sufficiently well in the entrance examinations to be offered a place which had hitherto been unavailable.

And of course, whilst there is some variance as to how much religious clap trap is taught in the different religious schools, most of them expect their ethos to be espoused and upheld at all times by the staff in their employ. In order to verify that, just go and look at an advert for say a position advertised by that filthy little rock spider church.

They should be terminated as an organisation and land that was given should be seized even if it requires the power of new retrospective legislation, such is the betrayal and harm perpetrated by them on unsuspecting and formerly trusting members of the Australian community.

Thereafter, children should be protected from being indoctrinated by their parents or anyone else for that matter and then once they are educated and of age, if they choose to enter into a religious organisation, then at that time, that is a matter for them.

Private Schools - Give them nothing except a regulatory and statutory frame work from which to start and within which to operate. The system can always be re-jigged to fund any additional load of students which return to the public system.

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