IT WAS good news to read that Cheshire West and Chester Council will not continue to subsidise school transport for children to attend faith schools and, as a consequence, save large sums of unnecessary expenditure.
The development of the ConDem educational policy of the expansion of academies and faith schools, who are free to teach creationism, is appalling.
The proliferation of unregulated academies in the UK will entrench religious discrimination in our school system for some time to come.
That, in turn will help to increase the unfair influence of religious groups throughout the whole of our society, even though the overwhelming majority of people in the UK are not religious.
I want a Britain where non-religious people can have confidence in their beliefs and build a foundation from which to live their lives with integrity, in a fair, ethical and equal society.
A world without religious privilege or discrimination, where people are free to live good lives on the basis of reason, experience and shared human values.
How can dividing children by faith and segregating them ever be a good idea if we have the ambition of a better understanding of each other?
BARRIE HODGSON Winsford
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