Letter: Admission for all to church schools
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Your continuing concern over the "scandal" of parents "falsely claiming religious beliefs to gain admission to church schools" is misplaced (report, 22 April). The real scandal is that church schools, funded out of the public purse, are denying access to the children of secular parents.
In so far as these schools feature amongst the best, secular children are being forced to choose between poorer schools. Yet children from a religious background face no bar to entering the very best secular schools; imagine the outcry if non-church schools tried to deny entry to the children of church-going parents on religious grounds.
TERRY MARSHALL
Norwich
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