Disunited Kingdom: How the Government's Community Cohesion Agenda undermines British Identity & Nationhood Book

For many years, faith schools were popular and uncontroversial. Parents like them, and they produce better-than-average results. However, the riots that broke out in some British cities in 2001, followed by the terrorist atrocities of 9/11 and 7/7, have focused attention on the danger of allowing young people to grow up in ghettoes, separated from the mainstream of society. Faith schools have consequently been blamed for damaging social cohesion. What schools should be doing is teaching British history properly and making sure that pupils are fluent in English. The dominant native language and culture should be privileged in schools. The Government alone has the capacity to deal with these issues, but chooses to pursue a less troublesome and less effective strategy instead.