[Marguerite]

I went to a Catholic primary school and I'm an Atheist. I don't think sending a kid to a religious school really indoctrinates them. I was taught it as fact day in day out, daily prayers and weekly church visits and RE classes. It didn't make a difference because at home my mother, while technically Catholic and believed in God, was fairly indifferent to Catholicism. We never really talked about it and I didn't go to Church (outside of school).

If you teach your kids from an early age that God or Gods exist then until atleast a later age they will believe everything. I don't think school makes a difference.

In year six we got a choice whether we wanted to go through with comfirmation or not and I opted not too, so my disbelief in God isn't something I figured out later in life.

Personally though I am opposed to religion being taught in public schools as fact but I would encourage them to teach about different religions (as theories).

As for religious schools, I am not opposed to them.