James Molloy from Glasgow
No. I attended a Catholic School and as well as an excellent standard of education allied with a strong Christian ethos, I left school with strong sense of respect and tolerance for others.

Bruce from Dumbarton
I think without a doubt it does lead to creating a division. Why should childhood friends outside of school be sent to seperate schools? Why should there be 2 seperate schooling systems in this country, if people want there kids to have a certain ethos at school, shouldnt it be through a private education funded by them?

Kevin from GLASGOW
Why is this question even on this forum.There are Catholic schools and non-denominational schools in countries all over the world and sectarianism is not a problem in these countries. So please stop rolling out the same old diatribe for problems much more deep rooted than separate schools!People should do their homework before they jump on the bandwagon.

David Dornan from Ayrshire
Yes. The minds of innocent children are poisoned at an early age with anti-Protestant views, rather than allowing those kids to make up their own mind about religion. As long as denominational schools exist, we will always have bigotry. School is for learning; Church is for religion.

Michael from Glasgow
There are legitimate concerns that denominational schooling has a divisive effect. Incidentally, there are similar concerns in England with the main focus there perhaps being on Muslim schools. There are proposals for state-funded Muslim schools in Scotland and I feel that would be a dangerous road to go down, as it would be a potential danger to to social cohesion and understanding of other groups.

Eddy from Greenock
Having been educated in Catholic schools both at primary and secondary level I must take issue with the views expressed by David above,I was never instilled with any anti-Protestant viewpoint, these views will be primarily found in the homes of the individuals from both a Catholic and Protestant stand point or is he implying that only Catholics due to thier education are bigots,also to Brian if there is no religious ethos within so called non denominational schools why do they have C of S chaplains or is my own ignorance of that particular system showing here.

Paul from Glasgow
I would suggest that it is not the education system that causes bigotry. Rather that the people who see Catholic, Jewish or other faith schools as a problem are the ones who are the bigots. This is one of only two countries in the world where Catholic education is blamed for social ills of society.

john from glasgow
Religion in school has no place in the 21st century and hopefully soon we will see an end to faith schools.

Rob from Edinburgh
The issue is not if seperate schools cause a problem. It should be why do we need seperate schools. I cant think of one. apart from attempting to brainwash children into thinking they are going to heaven while everyone else is going to hell.

Jim from Glasgow
I remember when Rangers started to do well under Souness and went on to 9 in a row with players like Gazza, Brian Laudrup and Ally McCoist. Many kids started to identify these guys as role models and started to ask their traditionally Scots Catholic parents for Rangers shirts etc. Some allowed these kids to make their own mind up about what team they wanted to follow. I feel this was the first time I witnessed barriers being broken down. These kids idolised these players as they were winners in their field and maybe some day others can learn from the actions of mere children

Barry from Edinburgh
In answer to the original question - no.

Gavin McCann from East Kilbride
I was educated at Catholic Schools. We received different religious instruction and it works. I have my faith and I don't ask others to believe in it, only to respect it. Respect can be taught at home or school.

Keith from Borders
Shame that us atheists can't get state funding to educate our children in non-superstitious , non-magic worshipping, rational pedagogy.