“ Judy Burstow:
How can you write: "the admissions will be (if oversubscribed) 50% Christian and 50% community"
and then in the sentence after write: "The aim to provide high quality education for all children regardless of their faith."?
The first sentence directly contradicts the second. There is no 'all' children with this proposed school. There is no 'regardless of faith'. This school - as in all schools that only admit a certain percentage of non-religious children - will be discriminatory in its selection policy. If it were serious about providing a 'high quality education for all children regardless of their faith' then it would make the intake 100% community. There is no reason for education and religion to be linked like this. It is grossly, grossly unfair on those who do not follow the religions of these schools.
All children should be equal when it comes to getting places at primary schools. How anyone can argue otherwise is beyond me. Yet this new school - and the other faith/church schools - fly directly in the face of that statement. I'm at an absolute loss as to how this can be justified. ”