Religious schools: are they undermining egalitarian education?

Author and academic Marion Maddox argues in her latest book that the proliferation of faith-based schools, paid for often largely by the government, is undermining Australia\u27s pioneering system of free and secular school education.   Summary Australia\u27s pioneering system of free and secular school education. In Taking God to School: The End of Australia\u27s Egalitarian Education?, Professor Maddox, who is a practising Christian, says some religious schools teach unscientific doctrine alongside science and enjoy exemptions from anti-discrimination laws. The head of Christian Schools Australia, Stephen O\u27Doherty, says the low-fee Christian school sector -- which educates about 130,000 children -- also enrol students from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with learning difficulties, and while they do teach Biblical principles, they also adhere to the state-approved curricula. Marion Maddox and Stephen O\u27Doherty debate her book. Producer/Presenter: Andrew West &nbsp