State schools permitted to teach creationism, spread religion across the curriculum
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The British Humanist association (BHA) has welcomed the Channel Four documentary, ‘The New Fundamentalists’, which yesterday highlighted many of the dangers posed by those on the extreme of Christian evangelism. Most timely was the film’s investigation of practices and teaching within the Vardy academies in the North-East of England .
The BHA assisted the programme makers with research on this aspect of their film, which comes as the government’s Education Bill