In message , at
18:07:36 on Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
I don't see how the children can even *be* Catholics -- or Atheists.

Those who have regularly attended Confirmation classes (the background
of which might well form part of all education *about* religion) would
probably claim they were practising catholics.

But participation is unlikely to be entirely voluntary or
well-informed.

Dawkins (and no doubt others) has pointed out that if you said primary
school kids were Marxists or Keynesian then people would say this was
silly, as they couldn't possibly have made an informed decision at that
age.

12 is generally regarded as the age that such decisions can be made by
the children. Which covers most of their time at a faith secondary
school.
--
Roland Perry