Sir – Please allow me through the columns of the your newspaper to make it clear that what was claimed by the advocates of the Tyndale Free School at the recent city council’s east area planning committee — namely, that I and my Oxford Humanist colleagues are fully behind their proposals for a Christian Free School in the old Nuffield sports hall — is quite untrue.
Humanists consider that the creation of any new faith school is a step away from improved social cohesion and that the most objective approach to religious education is that it should neither be linked to, nor give preference to, any one faith — or the lack of one.
Your report (March 14) stated that the planning committee turned the application down on the basis that the building was not suitable for a school.
This may well be true, though I and my colleagues have yet to see the application details.
John D White, Chairman, Oxford Humanists
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