Honorary Associate: Claire Rayner
Claire Rayner
Claire Rayner, OBE, writer, broadcaster and social campaigner, is also the UK's best-known agony aunt.
“It used to amaze me, as I got older and reached the level of school where they taught us physics and chemistry, that the self-same teachers who taught the rules of scientific evidence, of the way experiments had to be repeatable to be true, of the way mathematics provided incontrovertible evidence of so many laws of nature, could stand in daily school prayers with their hands folded and eyes closed praying to a supernatural totally unproven being.”
Make a Donation
Guardian, 21 August 2008
Yorkshire Post, 21 August 2008
Telegraph, 21 August 2008
The fact that this case was won while another case – that of 16- year old Lydia Playfoot and her claim in 2007 to want to wear a “chastity ring” in school – was thrown out of court seems in itself to be discriminatory.
Government transitional safeguards to protect the jobs and promotion prospects of head teachers and teachers already in post in Voluntary Controlled faith schools breach natural justice and are discriminatory, says the National Secular Society.