Sir - Your article Headteacher criticises admissions procedure (March 16) reports the concerns of the headteacher of a Catholic school, St Gregory the Great, over the allocation of places to pupils of other faiths, when six Catholic children had not been given priority over them.
To quote the article, this had caused "significant distress to the pupils concerned, especially as among those affected are children of people who have made contributions to the secondary school's new £20m building project."
Ahem. Are these people funding private places at this school, or does this school derive the vast majority of its funding from secular taxpayers like me?
While I respect the right of parents to send their children to single faith schools, despite the damage that such segregation is likely to cause overall, I strongly object to my taxes being used to fund such overt religious discrimination. It is high time that all religious considerations were banned from use as selection criteria for state-funded schools.
Peter Robbins, Oxford
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