Faith schools are immoral, children should not be indoctrinated.

Yes, it's a bit of an equivocation to say indoctrination and brainwashing are the same thing, I apologise, however that's how I felt as a child being forced to praise a god that I was starting to see wasn't really there. Again, I am arguing against indoctrination on principle that it wrong to indoctrinate children into any ideology, because although it may leave them freedom of mind, what is drilled into a child's mind when they are young will have an impact on them forever. My point with the "communist school" analogy is that it would be immoral to indoctrinate children into any ideology, communism being an ideology with it's own values and ideals, some of which are good (sharing, being equal) and some of which are not so good (no ambition etc.). And again, I'm not against the teaching of morality, I'm just pointing out that religion does not equal morality (if it did, I'd be some kind of kleptomaniac rapist serial killer). You can teach children to be good people and to be moral without the added baggage of faith being attached to it. Lets have a look at some of the other things faith schools often teach:There is one god, the (insert faith) god. (Implication: other religions are wrong)Jesus was an actual person who actually performed miracles and was resurrected. There is an afterlife.Even sometimes:Abortion is wrong. Period.Contraception is wrong.Masturbation is wrong.Abstinence is a good idea.And I know the following are not regularly taught in "conventional" faith schools, however in many schools, for example Plymouth Brethren schools here in England teach that:The Earth is less than 10000 years oldDinosaurs walked with peopleThere was a "Great Flood"Animals do not evolve.These statements would all be fit to teach our children if they started with the simple addition of "some people believe that". In that case, we would be educating them about others beliefs, rather than indoctrinating them into any particular one. And that is the main reason I believe faith schools are immoral, that faith schools deny children a full education, and I want children to be as educated as is humanly possible. And to address the argument that faith schools teach children morals. Well, as I mentioned in the previous round, children do not need to have faith based morals drilled into them. Rather, they need to be educated about morality, and told not just that you shouldn't steal, but why you shouldn't steal, and also taught that morality can be relative. For example, if you were starving and literally the only way you could survive was to steal food, would you steal? Children need to be encouraged to question everything, even whether or not they should question everything. Do you know what happens to kids who ask loads of questions? They grow up smarter.I cannot stress this enough: You do not need a religion to be a moral human! What you do need, however, is education, and yes that includes religious studies.You missed the point of the "White School" analogy, faith schools tend to teach that faith in god=morality, leaving some children unable to seperate the two. This can lead to children thinking that other religions are somehow not as moral, and children (like myself) who find themselves doubting the whole invisible sky wizard thing also begin to doubt (as I did) my morality as a human being. They might think that they are a bad person, and cause unneccesary guilt, which, incidentally, is what fuels most religions.