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It's also a bummer for teachers. Normal secular teachers are effectively blocked from applying to 50% of all UK schools for, say, promotion, unless they're ..
a) prepared to lie about their 'beliefs' and
b) put up with all the stupidity
I know of one (lapsed) Catholic teacher who applied for a Deputy Head job at an RC school and got it (by lying through his teeth). After a couple of years, he then escaped back to rationality as the Head of a proper school, where he had plenty of amusing tales to tell.
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