Almost every private school is a religious foundation, even if it is worn rather lightly. By banning or limiting state religious schools you are depriving parents without money of something that almost everyone with money seems to want.

Malcolm McLean, Bradford, UK

The only conflicts I've seen come one from one particular religion and we've never really had problems until that shown its ugly face

John, Salford, England

I would be more than happy to fund the schools that teach the one true faith but surely all the others are just a waste. Not only of money but of the children's minds.

Derek Smith, Brighton, UK

The idea that superstitious nonsense establishes good moral behaviour and a sound basis for high educational standards takes belief too far! The faith-schools concept is simply a device some parents use to exclude 'non-desirables'.

Lee, London,

I suppose it's depressingly understandable that Teachers Unions would be against any schools that had a strong moral ethos, and that provided competition to a monolithic system. But almost all the best performing state schools are faith schools. And certainly Christian and Jewish schools recieve far less from taxpayers than Christians and Jews pay in tax. As so often, the UK educational establishment doesn't seem to care about quality of education, and sees schools primarily as opportunities for social engineering.

Nicholas Beale, London, England

I totally agree. What sort of bizarre practices could be condoned there. Reading, writing, discipline, a moral code. How ghastly and obscene. They may even teach them to have self respect.! Not ( self esteem ), they get that at the State Asylums. They probably would not even have Social Workers on hand. O the infamy of it all. To the tumbrills!!

Desmond Taylor, Houston, TX